PBD Podcast - Musk CANCELS Netflix, Google's Trump COVER UP & Harvard's Drag Queen Hire | PBD Podcast | Ep. 659
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Did you ever think you would make it?
I still am supposed to take sweetly.
I know this life meant for me.
Adam, what's your point?
The future looks bright.
My handshake is better than anything I ever sized.
Right here.
You are a 101?
My son's right there.
I think I've ever said this before.
All right, folks.
It's great to be with you.
I've got a simple question for you.
Have you canceled?
your Netflix subscription yet.
Rob, can you start with that poll?
Have you actually canceled your Netflix subscription?
I'm curious because this one guy with 220 million followers
on this app called X told everybody to cancel it.
And yesterday, his network crossed a half a trillion dollars.
I said two years ago, two and a half years ago,
it's going to be the first trillionaire in the next 24 to 36 months.
Some number like that.
Now they're saying he's going to be a trillionaire in 2026.
Wow.
And it looks that's going to be happening.
They think he's going to double his net worth in the next 12.
The way he's building equity.
He's been in companies.
That's what happens when you're building companies.
Mike Johnson, caught on camera, admitting Trump is unwell.
But Mike Johnson, there's two other stories about Mike Johnson.
One guy went after him, baby grind with me type of a thing.
And then another story of Mike Johnson, a clip that I absolutely love.
Rob.
I hope you have found that.
It's such a great.
clip of Mike Johnson.
You know he's in the middle of things when he's getting people claiming some stuff about
him, where he's giving Hakeem Jeffries advice about his mental health.
You know what he told Hakeem Jeffries?
Why are you looking at what the president is tweeting?
It's the internet.
He's trolling you.
He's telling Hakeem Jeffries to not allow his boss to troll him.
I mean, that's like a double troll that's a cancellation of a troll, a level of maturity.
but maybe there's some kind of a sense of humor there.
You just got to see it.
It's funny.
I think it's funny.
I think it's really funny.
Then he got Google who's blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia.
That's not good because it's going back the other way.
Tom is probably right about what he's saying here.
Back to back highs, guys.
You ready?
All that stuff people feared about tariffs.
August and September brought in $62.6 billion dollars of revenue to the United States.
If it was a company, it was a decent month, it had.
And then Trump jokes about RFK sneezing,
saying, I hope I didn't get COVID from you.
Sinaloa cartel members, if you're watching this,
the cartel members, if you're watching this,
admits Trump's crackdown, making operations difficult.
Can you imagine if the Senalo cartel members watch the podcast?
Hey, Vato.
Oh, they're freaking talking about us, eh?
I'd like to see to our shareholders.
We had a really tough quarter.
Stop beheading that guy and come here, fool.
Beheadings were down.
transports were down.
BB, these talking about us.
We've got to get Ricky on the scene,
you're impacting our operations.
Hey, but what's that cocaine up the phone?
Actually, I do, you know,
I can't do a lot. Let's do it. Let's do a skit.
No, Tom, we're going to continue.
When Tom takes about a skit, you know that thing about the car tells
do quarterly earnings reports.
Let's do a skit.
You know what's going viral. You know what's good I'd like to see you do.
I would like to do a skit with Tom with a general contractor and a foreman.
Okay.
Do I have to dress up like a girl?
And then we'll have somebody here.
And then we say, you do two situations, what happened?
He goes in the room with her or he doesn't.
Which one happened?
Yeah.
It's kind of like a question for everybody.
Hey, baby, want to nail my two by four?
I got to go, guys.
Taiwan rejects, get Brandon in here.
Taiwan rejects U.S. proposals.
By the way, guys, you know, Adam was she had 5 a.m. this morning.
Just to make sure it was late one minute on Wednesday.
I slept under the trailer.
He's been here since 5 a.m. this morning on time.
He was about to be a Wally Pip.
and Lou Gehry was going to take over.
Taiwan rejects U.S. proposals, 50-50 chip production, says trade talks, focus on tariffs.
Trump's threatening 100% tariff on foreign-made movies, folks, and he's not talking about
adult movies.
He's talking like real foreign-made movies.
He's not happy about it.
And TikTok, we eventually have to talk about this.
Congress gets paid during a shutdown, government shutdown, and Mike Johnson trades barbs
with George Sepanopolis over government shutdown.
Deerborn Islamic Center.
who has invited us to come and do a podcast there.
They have not, but people on Dearborn out.
By the way, truthfully, I'm getting so many messages, people saying,
please come do a podcast there.
Please come do a podcast there.
I'm telling you, there's a part of me that's excited about doing it.
And if we get more and more people saying come,
and if we really get a committed crowd, we're going to go do a podcast.
Let me tell you, if we do that, it would be explosive.
Yeah, literally.
Oh, is that? Too soon.
Dearborn Islamic Center holds Memorial Morning
a year after Hezbollah chief
Nasarallah martyrdom.
So, John Fetterman
has higher approval rating with Republicans than
Democrats. That's pretty well.
Newsom Courts, big oil,
as gas prices threaten
political ambitions. What an interesting thing.
Andrew Cuomo apologizes
to Jewish people, and Adam was celebrating,
but to Jewish New Yorkers for COVID-19
lockdowns.
And then New York City Mayor
candidate Mamdani affect as Manhattan residents reportedly flee to suburbs.
They're already leaving this guy.
They're like, I'm out.
I'm done with you.
Stormer to,
he's even been elected.
Yeah, Starmer to increase requirement for refugees trying to stay.
And then Pope made some rare comments on U.S. politics around this ice like this,
this was like, I thought, you know, you know, honestly, I don't want, I'm not kidding with you.
At first, you know how you go like when you're doing events?
This may be inappropriate.
I'm just take take my sense of humor
and just like this is how literal I have sometimes
I thought that ice you know how you shave ice for kids
I thought he was going to get like the shaming guys
and then put like a yeah yeah and then
Homberto tells me that was a commitment
that the previous Pope made that he has to fulfill
to all the Catholics out there we got a Catholic in here
educating us on what it happened
climate change Humberto
we were all excited about it's going to be an ice shaving machine
type of stuff and no it's not it's just like a
like a shave like an angel or something
respect we're going to give it a respect we're going to give it a respect
that it deserves, because it reserves. He's a good guy.
So New York Times poll,
support for Israel drops
almost entirely
due to Democrats. And guess who wants to talk about the story?
Is it Tom? No.
Is it Rob? No. Is it Vinny? No.
That guy. Is it Adam? It is.
Warren Buffett on a verge of first mega deal
in years as investors prepare to cash in.
And then Elon is just not stopping with this Netflix.
stuff. We have to show you a couple of these things. And then Kim
Kardashian and Ray J. Sue Ray J. Sue Ray J. for defamation over
inflammatory. Feds,
RICO accusations. I mean, some hardcore stuff.
And Harvard, you realize Harvard's really trying to
win the normal families.
You ready, folks? For some of you guys that said, you will never, ever
encourage your kids to go to Harvard, well, this may change
your mind, especially the conservative families.
Harvard decides to hire
drag queen
with the name of
Lahore Vagestan
Oh nice
As visiting professor
For class about sexual dissidents
By the way
This is a true story
That's how crazy it is
You think logic is showing up
And Trump's saying I'll give you some money
If you bring what
If you allow people to have some trade skills
At Harvard like plumbing
And Vinny's talking about visually
What that would look like at Harvard?
Why'd you learn to be a plumber?
Harvard business
And they're at the same moment trying to negotiate with Trump
To get their endowments back
Yeah, so we're going to talk about NFL and Bad Bunny super halftime
Some people are making comments about them
Ukraine pitches plan to help U.S. sell Americans
American oil to Europe
And it looks like Putin may be open to the idea of
You know, meeting with Zelensky
And then we've got a couple of the stories
So hopefully we'll get into
By the time we're done after seven and a half hours
We'll get to all the stories
and Netflix
that's an older story
but we'll bring it
I think Tom's going to tie it all together
all right gang check this out
so here's what we're doing
last night
was a great night
the Yankees beat the Red So
notice one person not clapping
okay
and that is none other than Tom
else for so here's what we want to do with you
here's what look at that
look at the look at the hate of look
Zoom in on his face
by the way
I want people can you zoom it on the space
Jake zoom it on his face
and tell me
everybody in the group text last night
was texting back except for one guy
and the one guy who didn't respond back
was this guy. He says he doesn't have hate
towards the Yankees. I believe he does.
Having said that,
the pitcher of the Yankees yesterday
pitched a 12 strike. You know he hasn't pitched
a 12 strikeout, not in a minor league
this is the first time he does it.
Lights out, great stuff.
But here's what we like to see.
For some of you guys that are Dodger fans,
you're from L.A. and you're on Tom's side.
we got the Dodger blue future looks bright hand.
Look at this. Look at the timing of it.
What a sick hat that is.
By the way, whether you're a Dodgers fan or not, that is legit,
one of the sickest blue-colored future-looks bright hat we have.
But if you're a Yankees fan, folks, we also got the Yankees hat.
The Navy Blue Future Looks Bright Hat.
So here's a contest we're going to be playing.
We'll be watching to see which of these two is going to get more luck.
Now, Tom was upset because Tom said people in L.A. are sleeping.
and Pat, Yankees fans are up.
Yeah, we are. But listen, California is
one of the biggest viewers of the podcast. So, Rob,
we have to find a way to put the links of
both hats there. Folks, if you're searching it,
you could put Navy
hat, it'll come up. And what's
the other hats title if somebody is searching
it so they want to find it? It's
Royal. Royal hat.
You type of Royal. Both
hats are sick. I know. Maybe you're
somebody that's kind of like, you're
neither the Yankees or the Dodgers.
Some of you guys may be watching as your pirates. You're
ready to go after the ump somebody guys are like where's that um
give me the up i want to go find that man i won't go chase that man i don't know we got
saw it or not they were chasing did you see that after oh my god they chase the um they're
holding the pirates players back from destroying this ump oh man because of a couple bad
pitches that they have cups obviously yeah it's done done guys next year it's a robot yeah yeah
yeah it's true well we're going to see what's going to happen anyway the hat in teal for those marlin's
out there we actually do as well right now the focus is going to be this people are in the playoffs
So Yankees Blue or Dodger Blue, pick and choose, go place the order, support your team and support the future looks bright.
With that being said, let's talk about canceling Netflix.
All right.
So, you know, very interesting.
Like the moment you think this woke stuff is gone and parents eventually made a point to folks to say, can you just stop it?
Can you stop it with all this stuff with kids?
No.
Netflix is like, we're going to double down.
Now, Netflix didn't watch what happened to Disney.
Netflix didn't sit there and say, oh, my God, look at all the mess Disney see going through.
Netflix didn't pay attention to the fact that, you know, the Disney stock went from $38 billion market cap, give or take, to half that.
They weren't paying attention to it.
And then all of a sudden, they're like, no, we're going to continue going with this.
So, Rob, which one do you want to go with?
What can we play to react to?
Because some of this stuff is in the show, so I don't know if we can show more.
not. Can we show pictures? Yeah, I have tweets from Elon Musk as well as the Netflix stock. So,
why don't we do this? So here's cancel Netflix from Elon Musk. Lips of TikTok tweets this just a
couple of days ago. It says, holy shit. Show on Netflix, the babysitter club pushes transgenderism
on kids. Shames characters for misgendering and demands hospital staff refer to and treat a boy as a
girl insanity this is one okay next one rob if you want to go to the other one did you bother did
see i don't know if you saw the video is disgusting it's out could you narrate maybe what happened she's
coming in there and there and the kids going through i don't know transition or whatever and the doctor
and the nurse misgender the girl that's laying there or boy or whatever so the friend goes can i
talk to you guys outside goes outside and has to correct the doctor and the nurse that she is a he and
He's, it's like, bro, what?
And by the, parents, guys, you guys have no idea.
When parents just go, honey, go watch Netflix and they give them remote and they leave,
you have no idea the subliminal little messages.
You don't think kids are looking at this going, huh, what is that?
And they mimic it.
They go home and they mimic it.
And that's a form of indoctrination.
Yeah, and I know you want to, I don't know if we can shorten it.
I said Rob, I actually screenshot and recorded.
Let's just play.
Let's just play.
We can play the audio for the audience and for the video for you guys and not show the video that
we don't get fly.
So Rob, go back.
Oh, yeah, go ahead, Rob.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
It took a while, but we finally found a file for a Bailey Del Vecchio.
Is 32 Burnhill Road still the current address?
Yeah.
Have you been getting him fluids?
If he's dehydrated, we'll be tested.
He, and by the way, it's...
It's...
I don't know.
I hear some as I feeling well.
Doctor comes in.
The friend is looking.
They're both a little visually upset.
And now the friend...
Can I please talk to you two outside?
A 12-year-old has to talk to a doctor and a nurse
about biology. Ready?
Look, now she's addressing that.
I know that you guys are busy, but
as you would see, if you looked at
her and not her chart,
Bailey is not a boy.
What the hell is going up? Bailey is not
positive. Pause.
Okay. Now, disgusting.
Oh, my God. Disgusting. There you have that there.
Now, is this a, and it's called, what,
Babysitters Club? Now, watch the next one, Rob. What's the other one
that they have? Is this another one?
Yes, this is another cartoon that's on
Netflix, I believe the name of this show is a dead and paranormal park.
It's a show that's geared for seven-year-olds, and we'll play the audio again.
Go ahead.
It's not the park.
It's me.
I'm trans, normal.
Great.
And everyone at school knows, and everyone at home knows.
And being here, it's like a whole new place.
I'm good.
What's the other one?
There's another one as well that the two girls are kissing each other,
the cartoon. I don't know if you have that one or not.
I sent him about a montage video, Pat,
just where I screen record. Anyways, there's a bunch of
them. So here's the point. So that happens.
Here's what happens on Netflix's stock. Can we look at what
happened on Netflix's stock? Yes, please. So
Netflix's stock drops. How much does it drop,
Tom? Was it a dramatic drop or not
really? Not really. And Rob, I sent
you a link for a full year
look at it. So don't cry for
Netflix. The stock is not that far down.
What we need is, but
if this boycott goes
heavier, I sent you the link this
morning and just click on it and then click on year to date it's ready to go but you'll see pat
that they've actually been on a role over the last year Netflix has been on a bit of a role
now click with one day click on year to date little blue box right there yep you're to date
stock is up so it's a bear it's not even a nothing happens it's down a little tiny bit
but they're look at they're at half a trillion they're at they're at 500 look down I think the market
cap is approaching 500 billion dollars. Just scroll down on the page a little bit. Yeah,
$493. Market cap is $493. Now go back up and take a look. And there's the bounce out of
COVID. Pat drops down. But since then, they're on a tear. You're absolutely right. Yeah. Yeah.
There's a bit of minor, minor blip downward. This is why I asked the question. The question I
asked is, how many people you think actually canceled Netflix? Actually canceled their membership? What do you
think the number is? Do you think it's a real number? I think it's a million? You think so?
No, no, no, no. You don't think a million people out of 350 million Americans can't? How many
total subscribers of Netflix have? The last number I remember is was 185 million, 190 million, maybe
higher today. That was a few years ago when we did something. It's probably got to be in a 205 to
210 million today. Let's see what the number is. 300 million. Okay. So they've killed. There
are 300 million paid subscribers globally. Do you think they lost 100,000? Do you see?
Do you think they lost a half a million?
And they're not worried about it.
Take a look at that note.
Their CFO said that they will no longer identify the specific subscriber numbers in quarterly reports.
They will only talk about revenue in EBITA.
Why is that?
Well, because the subscriber numbers can jump up and down a lot, and they've got a variety of tiers.
So a subscriber is not a subscriber.
And they're saying, it's my job to make revenue go up quarter to quarter.
And I'm not going to talk about subscribers.
So a boycott like this, unless it really hit revenue, they're not going to disclose this.
Netflix charge per month these days.
Netflix?
I think it was like 15 or 20.
I think it went up.
No, no, no, no, no.
And mind you, you know, what was that thing that Humberto said?
You remember the show cuties that was on there?
Rob, can you remember the show cuties?
Can you find the show cuties?
The one that we've all had still exists?
Young girls, I don't know, but Charlie Kirk, and I sent Rob,
Charlie Kirk posted September 11, 2020.
This is your daily reminder that Susan Rice sits on the board of Netflix
and the Obama's received tens of millions of dollars.
from Netflix.
They should be forced to answer for being part of a pedophile streaming platform.
That's it right there.
That's an actual tweet from Charlie.
Dude, is that crazy?
September 11th, 2020.
Is that wild, Pat?
That's nuts.
The day before.
That is nuts.
Did you cancel your Netflix?
No, we did not.
You did not.
Why not?
Well, because first of all, we don't follow this closely.
Our kids, we believe it or not, in our family, we're not a Netflix family.
What are you?
We're not.
Our kids, Brooklyn watches Pink Panther from the 60s
because he's got a grandpa that's 83 years old
that all he wants to show her is Pink Panther from the 60s.
You should see like the old school, what do you call it?
Old school.
Tom and Jerry?
No, no, no, old school, not CGI.
What do you call it?
Cartoons?
Animation.
Yeah, just a very, like, level of animation
that we could probably do here.
If we had a weekend, we could learn how to do that type of animation
on Udeme.
But that's what she watches.
And then we'll watch some...
That's good stuff.
The old Pink Panther stuff, there's nothing bad in that.
Here's the question, though, Tom.
Here's a question, though, Tom.
So, does this make Netflix boulder?
That's the real question.
Does this make Netflix boulder?
Because to Disney, they felt it immediately.
Rob, can you go show the stock of Disney?
Okay?
Go Disney stock and go back five years.
If you can do a five-year thing, right there, five-year.
Okay, watch this.
So guess what?
They felt it, all right?
They felt it.
And they went from what?
What was it at the peak, Rob?
Can you go at the peak?
Was 180, 197.
And what's the lowest goal like to right there right before 2024?
Look at that.
So more than 50% of any, the company lost $200 billion.
Jeez.
Give or take.
And even today, where's it at right now, Rob, 112?
So Disney is 112.
Peak was 197.
So from five years ago to today, the shares have dropped 85.
what's 85 on 197?
What's 85 divided by 197?
Vinny, can you do it on your head?
42.68.
By the way, as crazy as it is,
43.1.
Bam.
So you said you're not good at math.
You're actually good at math.
You got to carry the one.
Got it.
So when you think about this,
Tom, why did Disney get hit so hard
and Netflix puts this transgender stuff on there
in kids' faces
and they barely feel anything?
What's the difference?
Well, I think there's a big difference.
Disney owns a lot of the content that people want to see.
You take a look at all the stuff that they have, their library.
And they also are very, very visible, and they represent something that goes back.
Netflix does not have like an old school chapter that everybody remembers for their brand.
I mean, think about it.
What do you think of Netflix going way back?
Shipping
Shipping the DVDs
Shipping DVDs
When you go back
And you think of Disney
You think of
Wholesome stories
You think of
The happiest place on earth
Friendly stuff
Children based
A lot children based
Exactly right
So when Disney gets out a line
So
What happened
What happened?
Did you hear something?
What happened?
While on the show
Tom bought five
Dodger blue hats
Did he really?
Did you really?
How the hell did you do that?
You are so funny.
Folks, there's a racist going on.
Yankees. Come on, Yankees. Come on, Yankees.
You've got the Dodger Blue going against.
Go to meetkeepers.com, type in Royal Hat or Navy Hat.
It'll come up.
Go ahead, Tom, make your point.
No, the point is Netflix doesn't have like a white hat, black hat, before and after to look at.
They only have, you know, are you going to boy cut it because you don't like this?
Disney had the legacy of the happiest place on Earth, safer families,
and all the content was there.
And when Disney went crazy woke and went off there,
you've got families that have got plush toys,
history with Disney,
plans to take a vacation and go to Disney World.
And when they all go, no, no, no, no, no,
Disney gets hit like on three vectors.
I'm not, they get theme parks,
merchandise, and movies.
Then guess what?
Netflix is just like, okay, we have a couple of crazy movies.
You don't like it? I'm sorry.
Yep.
So it's what you're boycotting and what it stands for.
And you know what's crazy, though?
I think they don't think they realize when it comes to Musk,
his anger isn't coming from nowhere.
It's personal.
Okay, remember when Jordan Peterson sat with him and he said,
my son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus, okay?
And then he went, I was tricked into doing this.
I lost my son, essentially.
They called it dead naming for a reason.
The reason they call it dead naming is because your son is dead.
And then later on on social media, he said,
he sharpened it more he said my son
Xavier died he was killed
now the woke mind virus
will die okay you
they made an enemy of a guy that we just
you just said in the beginning is worth
$500 billion and he is
on track to be a trillionaire
okay that's the choose your enemies wisely
Netflix didn't even know that they were choosing this guy
it's the worst and they're gonna feel it
and the fact that they're pretending
all these companies pretend like no
we don't it's just whatever it's not like bother
that show one of the what was it
paranormal, whatever. It's not even out
anymore. But then he was pissed off to. He even called
out Transformers. There's a clip of
Transformers pushing this trans stuff
on the kids. You know what it is? I'm just happy that
parents, they're seeing it, they're not
buying it. And it's like simple. Stop sexualizing
the children. Stop pushing this garbage.
As if they didn't learn their lesson. Like Bud Light
wasn't an example. Disney wasn't
an example. This is what I'm saying. To me
the question is that the boldness.
Like look at what Harvard just did. Okay.
Harvard hires
like if you're if you're watching this right now what's the next word okay if you the average person
watching is you saw what just happened to Harvard what he thinks the next word Harvard hires dot
dot dot jeez you ready Harvard hires drag queen named Lahore Vagestan
wow as visiting professor for class about sexual dissidents this is this is Lahore Vagestan
look at the beauty okay is it Lahore Vagestan okay what a great name
Harvard has recently hired a visiting professor in a woman gender and sexuality department
whose alter ego is a drag queen who goes by the name Lahore Vagestan.
I mean, I keep saying that.
Forgive me, folks.
It's just, you're not dead naming.
You're calling the person.
The department announced in July, it is bringing on Kareem Khubchanadi to teach classes
on queer ethnography.
He's Persian?
And RuPaul, you better work.
drag race and desire
Khubchan Adi
has an extensive career
on drag queen performance
and is committed to bring in a nightclub
to classroom
and vice versa
teaching critical race
post-colonial
and gender theory
through lip sync and lecture
I'm an educator
scholar
and performer
invested in feminist
queer and trans
everyday aesthetics
particularly in South Asia
and its diaspora.
Khoshanadi, personal website reads,
my work is committed to uplifting
the creative ways that
Minoritarian,
is an Armenian last name.
Towardian.
Subjects live inside of oppressive structures,
especially how we use dance,
fashion, and language
to build something more beautiful for each other.
I'm an associate professor
of theater, dance,
and performance studies at Tufts University
Oh, my gosh.
I also perform as Lahore Vagestan
Every Day's favorite Desi track queen auntie.
The professor's queer ethnography course
will study gender and sexual dissidents
such as gay neighborhoods, trans, raves, sex,
work, lesbian parties, BDSM Dungeons,
AIDS activism, according to Harvard's official course catalog.
Tell me that's not on their official book.
Rob, folks, go ahead, play that video
because...
I don't even want to say.
Go ahead, right.
He has eyebrows on top of his eye, though.
Stop, Rob, stop, Rob, stop.
That's crazy.
That's tough.
Rob, go to the website.
That's a demon.
I don't know what...
Plain and simple.
So, this is where I'm going with this.
I have a complete different take on this,
which I'll give here in a minute.
Tom, how do you process this?
Again, to me, it's...
We thought we were done with this insanity stuff.
We thought Netflix was going to stop doing things.
with kids. We thought Disney was done. We thought Harvard was done. Then an announcement like
this happened. Have they learned their lesson yet? Is this going to make a difference? Or are they going
to keep playing these games for no reason? Well, I happen to think that this is a mistake. And I think
I'd be willing to bet that the Board of Regents, the trustees, the provost, and the President of Harvard
that are all negotiating with our government right now. Because our government has said,
we're going to cut, the exact word is, $2.2 billion in research grants
because we don't like the way you didn't protect the Jewish students on campus
when the Palestinian protests were happened.
And it's not that there is a Palestinian activist.
It's that they were threatening and they were intimidating
and the Jewish students very reasonably feared for their personal safety.
It said, number one.
Then they had the same issue that Yale had where they had their thumb on the scale
and not letting good students come in, specifically,
ones and they were mixing DEI so that, you're a private university. Yeah, you're a private
university, MF, but you know something? You're getting money from the United States of America
from public people's taxes, $2.2 billion a year in grants. So you can't hide behind, oh, I'm private. I can do
admissions any way I want when you're taking public money. Do whatever you want, but stop taking the
public money. No more money from the public. Then they came back and they said, listen, we may bar you
or just disbar you.
So it's not just for freezing the $2.2 billion, Pat.
They want to disbar it.
And they have put on the table a financial settlement of $500 billion.
Harvard is negotiating at this hour on that $500 million.
It was a headline.
People thought it was done.
It's not.
It's being negotiated with the Trump administration and Harvard.
So you have all these people in one part of campus and all of a sudden, Pat, they see this,
even though they might say, hey, if we want to offer a class like this and it's ridiculous,
we'll offer a class like this.
we'll do it. We can do whatever we want. We're a private institution. That's true you are.
But what do you think that the trustees and the provost, what if you're one of the trustees?
And I don't think you ever would be. But what if you're one of the trustees, provost and the president come in there and you say, how are we doing with the federal government?
We've got to get these grants back. Otherwise, you have a budget shortfall here. And they say, hey, did you see this going on over in the School of Sociology?
I just looked it up. It's on their website. So if you go here, Harvard.edu, okay?
Rob, can you confirm this is their actual website?
Okay?
Just click on that.
Just click on that right there, yeah.
So it's their real website.
Okay, now go back to the page you were on,
zoom in a little bit on their site.
If you click on queer ethnography, okay, place is still available.
It's, okay.
You're going to log in and use that as a go.
So go to the other one on Rupolitics.
Okay.
So, you know, you're saying Harvard and the government for me?
For me, it's very different.
For me, before, that's the problem.
because if Harvard's always going to be worried about what the government thinks about giving them money,
officially the customer becomes the government, not the families.
That's what I'm saying.
Be a private school, but don't take the public money.
Do whatever you want.
Yeah, so where I'm going with this is, so then their number one priority ought to be parents.
Now, their argument may be, look, to all the conservatives out there that have problems with what Netflix and Disney is doing,
you guys don't like it because it's under 18.
Fine.
These are adults.
Let them take the classes.
Believe it or not,
I actually can understand that argument,
okay,
that they're making.
You understand what I'm saying?
Because if we,
as conservative,
say,
take it out of the,
you know,
don't put in front of our kids.
They don't need to see this,
okay?
You can put it afterwards.
Fine.
You want to put,
I can simply sit there and say,
you know what,
we're going to go to Harvard,
but we're not going to take this class.
Just don't worry about that class.
Right.
But maybe you know why they're putting it there.
You know why they're putting it there?
Yesterday I was watching something saying,
why are so many celebrities kids transgendered?
It was showing Magic Johnson, Twain Wade,
Megan Fox, Charleston around.
Why is that?
Phil Morris talked about it.
It goes to parties.
Megan Fox.
Megan Fox, I think, is 3-4-3, if I'm not mistaken.
Get out of here.
All three of her kids?
I actually think it's, can you check with Megan Fox?
How many trans kids does Megan Fox have?
Trans kids does Megan Fox have?
to go three for three
I mean you're just
making it have four children
but none of the children
are the children
they're based on
based on misonrograms
have been publicly identified
we've seen them dressed as the opposite sex
well I mean you're dating machine gun Kelly
who was famous for being a dude who dresses
so I'm glad you did that
three kids and the gardener
you see the pictures if you go to it
what the kids look like
when they're going in the streets
boys dressed as I mean
it's not
it's not that you're not seeing it
but going back to it
Maybe what they're doing is
They're trying to say
We have to find a way to please the folks on the left
We have to find a way to please the people on the right
And here's what we're going to be doing
So Hollywood's going to be okay
We want to send their kids here
Okay, you know
They're not trying to see their customers as conservatives
I actually don't have a problem with that
As they're doing this
I can choose not to take it
To me, I'm more okay with this
Than I am with the stuff that's going on with kids
That I have this much tolerance for.
If you're an adult, we went to, my kid this summer, now I can say it, he went to
Yale for this whatever program, not Yale, it was a program he went to.
Very interesting.
Trans was out in the open.
I was there.
One of the guys that starts talking, registration, the way he's talking, we're like, whoa.
And multiple kids he met that were gay and just, you know, openly talking and all this
stuff.
And we prepped them.
I said, this is where you're going.
You're going to experience a different thing.
type of an environment. We chose to put the kid there, right? Adam, how do you process this
yourself? Like, would you as an adult, let's just say going to Florida State University,
they offer rule politics, would you take it? At Florida State University, let me tell you
something. I majored in communications and I minored in beer and chicks. This was not a thing
that Florida State University or any normal, rational person dealt with growing up. And
there's a lot to talk about here. Let me segment this. The Harvard situation, they hired this
trans drag show person
Lahore
Vagistan
to what teach this class
about
transgenderism
Vagistan
any country that ends with
Stan
just know that they're probably
not a big fan of the gays
Pakistan
Kazakhstan
very nice
I have no idea
Durkistan
there you go
so the gays for Gaza thing
everybody understand
it's a complete sham
because anyone who's gay
would not be allowed
in any country that ends with
Stan or any Muslim country
for that matter
ironically enough and it's a little too much for me
Tel Aviv is like the gayest city in the Middle East
by far, a little too much
but they said that politics is downstream from culture
and this is really where we're at these days
if you show that stat about just how gay
and gay and gay our country is getting
okay that's what's going in and now they say that
does art imitate life or does life imitate art
what I would do what Pat I think you would agree with this
if you're going to have Lahore Vagestan
teach a class you always talk about having
opposing opinions, like two professors, that's what you would do? Well, I have an idea.
Harvard, why don't you hire someone like Andrew Tate to teach a class about toxic masculinity
and him and Lahore Vagestan can teach his class together and we'll see who has a better
idea for the future of our youth. Something will tell me when Andrew Tate sits down next to
Lahore Vagestan, Lahore is probably going to run out the door because he's going to dismantle
her with actual facts and actual arguments.
So this is what's going on there.
That's Harvard.
Now, can we talk about Netflix for a second?
This is also part of the politics is downstream from culture.
When we were growing up, I used to watch shows like Saved by the Bell,
which taught you how to talk to chicks like Kelly Kapowski.
Exactly.
When you wake up in the morning and you feel that whole deal.
And there was other shows in Living Color.
But there was another show that I used to watch growing up.
It was called Pepe Lepeot.
You remember this dude?
He was a freaking...
This dude right here was...
Some may say he was a ladies man, Don Juan de Marco.
Other may say he was a living, breathing, sexual assaulter in real life.
He was a predator.
But this may have been sort of the reason the Me Too movement sort of existed.
All right, let me tell you, lady, I'm going to take you out.
Bapapap, Papa, Pap, Papa, you got canceled during the Me Too movement.
But I would tell you...
There was a French skunk, which was a complete...
There was underlying messages there.
and sexual
assaulters. Please, Tom,
you're better than that. Pepe Lepew, what a
sicko. However, he did teach boys
a lot of lessons. I'd approach women.
Flip it. Now you have
these shows, which is encouraging
kids to become transgender.
And you have
a 12-year-old lecturing
doctors in that once you...
Listen, doctors, I know you're looking at
charts and graphs
and biology.
But Scotty's actually a woman.
So let's please use they-them pronouns while she's sick with cancer
because that's really what the kids worried about right there.
To say that we're living in an upside-down world would be an understatement.
But equilibrium is what we're getting to.
My assumption is over the next few years, like you said, Pat,
transgenderism is going to be canceled,
just like the Me Too movement got canceled.
I just think it's too much, man.
I think it's too much.
But if a college wants to do it as an adult, you can do it.
However, we as parents can say, screw you, okay?
That's simple.
The challenge becomes some parents who are putting their kids in school,
who are 12, 13 years old in public school,
who can't afford to put them in private school,
can't say screw you because they live in that zip code.
That's their job.
They can't afford to put their kids in a private school
that's a couple thousand dollars a month.
They're the ones that are screwed,
but the options are not there.
So anyways, let's go to the next story here with the government shutdown.
Mike Johnson, okay, has a back-end,
forth with Stepanapolis, George, and they're going back and forth on the government
shutdown. And there's a couple of the clips I want to share with you guys on the government
shutdown. Here's one of them. Go ahead, Rob.
Facts. Here are the facts. The proposal does not provide health care for illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants cannot buy health care under the Affordable Care Act. They cannot
receive health care subsidies. Illegal immigrants are ineligible for Medicare, Medicaid,
and the Children's Health Program. The Democratic bill does not make them eligible.
It does, actually, because what it does is it unwinds the changes that Republicans put into the big beautiful bill,
the big signature legislation that we passed and signed in the law on July 4th.
That has been very successful in ensuring up Medicaid for the people who are actually eligible to receive it.
What we did in the bill, and the CBO just verified this three weeks ago,
the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan arbiters of everything up here,
they said that those provisions have helped to reduce premiums.
Why?
Why? Because we got ineligible recipients off of Medicaid, illegal aliens,
and able-bodied young men who are riding the wagon who are not eligible to be there.
Medicaid is intended for specific populations of U.S. citizens.
That is young, pregnant women who are down on their luck, the disabled, and the elderly.
Those resources are being drained from those folks, and so we fixed that.
We reduced fraud, waste, and abuse in the program.
Chuck Schumer's counterproposal on the CR would reverse that.
That is a simple fact.
The CBO did not say that about illegal immigrants.
You've made your point right there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's such a show.
Who?
Didn't George, how much money did he just have to pay?
A lot of money?
Didn't he pay millions of dollars because of your...
They just can't get out of their way.
I'm sorry.
Tom, your thoughts on this.
George, step on all of us is really wrong.
You know, this is annoying.
When news commentators become lobbyists,
something's really wrong.
George is mischaracterizing what was in there.
The Big Beautiful Bill.
did make changes trying to preserve Medicaid for those people that need it.
We lived in L.A.
And L.A., there was a lot of people that needed Medicare, citizens that were there.
And then when it was overwhelmed by the illegal aliens that came in,
you know what happened in the hospital?
We covered this about a year and a half ago on the podcast.
The hospital closed because it couldn't afford it.
And they pleaded for mercy.
They begged for mercy.
They wanted more money from the state.
The state said, no.
And they said, well, then I have to close that emergency.
room. So guess what? You had paramedics that would do what they can provide basic, you know,
things, but they didn't have drugs, they didn't have x-rays, they didn't have things like this,
and sometimes they didn't were unable to transport people places. This is about protecting
the voting block of illegal aliens that are coming to this country. That is all this is about.
And in the process, the Democrats, and I hope people are listening, are turning their backs on
group that they have been pandering to and working voting blocks for 30,
35 years, and now they're flipping the other way on them and taking resources that were for citizens in certain cities and parts of this country that didn't have it exactly, as Mike Johnson said, and they're shutting it down, and they want to give the resources to make the illegal aliens eligible.
Stephanopoulos is not correct, and he's playing games with words on this, but Mike Johnson on this is right.
on the continuing resolution, it's not just a continuing resolution, it's continuing
revisions. That's what CR stands for, is continuing revisions, not continuing resolution.
Continuing resolution, hey, we agree, Vinny, we're going to get a half a billion dollars a day.
We're going to keep the government running on this.
You can do that in one paragraph.
Instead, the continuing resolution is pages and pages and pages of, if you want my boat,
I need this favor.
That's what's going on, then.
And if you think about it, like, remember how many times have I asked on this podcast?
What, what's the Democratic platform?
What are they, what are they about?
What are they for?
And like time and time again, they're proving it's just illegals.
Okay?
They love illegals.
The moment the Biden administration got in, what did they do, Tommy?
Open the border, flooded us with illegals, okay?
This government shut down right now is because the Republican Party isn't bowing down
because they want to give Medicaid and all this health care to illegals.
Okay, remember when the Maryland man, the MS-13 Maryland man was arrested,
illegal they flew to another country
congressmen went there to try to talk to bring his ass
back here then in colorado you had um tren daragua
was taking over apartment complexes what they say
no it's not happening you guys are you guys are crazy
ISIS out here trying to get all these illegals out
and you have these idiots shooting and killing
illegals at the same time okay and it's it's just
unbelievable that's all the democratic party
stands for is for illegals they don't care about
the american people all they want is these freaking votes
because they know that you keep incentive
these people that bring their asses over here, the 20 million that are here,
they're going to keep voting for them.
That's it, Tom.
What else are they standing for at this point?
And they say, oh, you're lying about this, you're lying about that.
Wait a minute.
You lied about Russia.
You lied about this.
You lied about this.
And now you lied about those people in Colorado.
By the way, here's the speaker, Johnson, trying to give some advice to Kim Jeffries
in and Adam, I'm coming to that afterwards.
Go ahead.
Many of you asked me this morning about sombreros and memes and why Hakeem Jeffries is all
alarmed by that.
But look, these are games.
These are side shows.
People are getting caught up in battles over social media memes.
We've got to keep the, this is not a game.
We've got to keep the government open for the people.
I don't know why this is so complicated.
And to my friend Hakeem, who I was asked about, man, just ignore it.
I mean, Gavin Newsom was trolling me last night.
He painted me like a minion.
He painted me yellow with big glasses and overalls.
And I thought it was hilarious.
They're horrible.
You don't respond to it.
For all my friends, for all my friends, R's and D's, don't respond to it.
get to work, do the people's business, and let's get on with it.
Thank y'all.
By the way, that was a very mature response on what he said, Adam, go ahead.
Did you see what Hakeem Jeffrey said to Trump when he's like, oh, you know, you're going to do this racist, these epithets, you know, say it to my face.
Say it to me.
Buddy, you think Trump is scared of you?
You're going to throw that down?
Trump is meeting with Putin, Kim Jong-un.
He's trying to solve wars.
And he thinks he's scared of the minority leader in the House.
I'm not saying, like, actual minority.
I'm saying what he is as a minority.
But it's, Trump ain't scared to you, dog.
And if this is what you're going to do, go down the rabbit hole,
try to fight Trump about a sombrero,
you're going to lose this battle.
Play that clip if you have that, Rob.
And Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me.
Oh, yeah.
Think of something tough.
Don't think of something tough.
Top out through a racist and fake AI video.
When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Maxine Waters.
Tell him, Maxine.
And I'll play with Trump is.
Maxine looks like he's wearing an old mask of herself.
Huh?
Did you have the clip of what Trump did?
Rob?
Yeah, we saw that.
We played that on the show that you weren't.
Yeah, that you weren't here.
Hey, listen, you know, you can't win them all.
But so what's going on right now with this, you know,
fight over funding.
the government and you know are they throwing things in at the CR continuing resolution we've seen
this thing before time we know what happens here but this was reminiscent of what happened in 2018
remember when you sat down with trump and you literally said you know my favorite moment of your
presidency mr president was this moment right here when him and chuck and nancy were arguing
about the government funding and trump said i will own it do you have that clip rob
the last time chuck you shut it no no no and then you open it very quickly and i don't want to do
20 times you have called for, I will shut down the government if I don't get my wool. None of
us have said. You want to know something? You've said it. Okay, you want to put that on my
I'll take it. Okay, good. You know what I'll say? Yes. If we don't get what we want,
one way or the other, whether it's through you, through a military, through anything you want to call,
I will shut down the government. Okay, fair enough. And I am proud, and I'll tell you what,
I am proud to shut down the government for border security. Bingo. Because the people of this country
don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems
and drugs pouring into our country.
So I will take the mantle.
I will be the one to shut it down.
I'm not going to blame you for it.
The last time you shut it down, it didn't work.
I will take the mantle of shutting down.
And I'm going to shut it down for security.
Let me tell you something right now.
Revisionist history.
Do you understand what type of leadership that was at the time?
Because this was still a couple years into his presidency.
Russia collusion.
We don't know.
Everything's happening.
It's racist.
The wall.
What that fight was over in retrospect, you know, they said Trump was right about everything.
Here in retrospect, they were fighting about $5 billion to fund the wall.
Now, seven years later, don't you think we'd love to have that wall?
After the 10 million plus illegals have been led in since the Biden administration,
don't you think that $5 billion would have been well served?
Ironically enough, this was the longest government shutdown in American history.
I think it was a little over a month, 35 days.
and you know what it apparently cost
the American economy? How much?
$11 billion. Weird.
So we could have just paid the $5 billion.
Built the wall, had some success from it,
avoided all the drama,
and we could have saved that money.
What's better than that?
When they say Trump was right about everything,
here's another example.
And, Pack, I just show one thing,
not to go back,
but Stephanopoulos and all the media,
I want to congratulate all of you
because they just hit an all-time low.
All-time low, trust.
Tom, look at that.
Public confidence in media
as a record low.
Look at that.
How did that happen?
It went even lower than what it was before.
How low can you go?
And they're not shifting gears.
Like these people are just on a runaway train
and they just will not let up.
What more is it going to take for you guys to stop this nonsense?
Like lying to the American people
because people are still watching this crap.
You know how they say.
You're absolutely right.
You know how they say that like elections have consequences?
You know, right now the Democratic Party
really just stands for booing Trump.
Trump's going to win, he's going to lose, he's going to have some,
he's going to have some gains, he's going to have some losses.
But the Democratic Party is just L, L, L, L, and all they're doing is booing Trump.
But how low could it go?
I think they're going to have to get, have a couple losses,
meaning they lost the presidency.
Kamala still thinks it's the closest election ever.
Well, she's probably drinking.
They need to lose the midterms, and they need to lose maybe 20, 28 to realize this is where we're at.
Because if they still think they have a chance, they're not going to try to change.
But I'm saying the future looks very glim for, it's not good.
The future looks brighter.
Yeah, for us it does, but not for them.
All right, let's go to the next story here.
Let's go to the next story here.
So, let's see which one this is.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Okay.
Rip off Las Vegas faces another huge tourism slump thanks to government shutdown.
As Americans avoid flying over fears of travel chaos and plane crashes.
Give me a flip on book with that title.
Well, let me read it to you.
So what is this, Rob?
Is this the clip about the article?
Yes.
Go for it.
It was another rough month for Las Vegas tourism.
In May, nearly every major stat took a dip.
Strip gaming revenue dropped 4% year over year with downtown down over 11%.
And the Boulder Strip was off by 8.3%.
Visitation fell by 6.5% both for the month and year to date.
And hotel occupancy on the strip dropped by 3.2%.
Even airport traffic and cars entering from California were down.
Surprisingly, the average daily room.
rate also slipped below $200 for the first time in a while. So that is good news. The only bright
spot convention attendance was up nearly 11% is the era of nonstop growth and sky high prices
finally cooling off. The numbers say maybe. Yeah, I mean, it's so bad that you know how they
have these waitress girls that walk around. They can't afford them no more. Most of them are not.
Like, 62% are transgender is not. Really? No, no, I'm allegedly. Allegedly. People are saying.
Well, Van Pagestan?
So I just got back from Vegas yesterday.
We went to Vegas, visited MGM,
except above all 2026 will be at the MGM.
Sick.
The amount of surprise we'll be making with that is going to be awesome.
But we're there.
We're walking around.
We finished the meeting.
We take off at 3.30, 4 o'clock in the morning yesterday.
And we landed at a full day yesterday.
I finished at 10 o'clock last time with time at a very good dinner.
We had last night.
Cool stuff.
Yeah, very good stuff.
But while we're there, we're looking at MGM's
new, what do you call it, the pool party they do outside, like, I don't know what it's called,
but it's called the Palm Beach or something at the MGM.
Nice, nice area with the pool parties.
We may be shutting down now, doing something with it.
But I asked the guy, say, let me ask you, how is tourism right now in Vegas?
We're walking around the tables.
Nothing.
Nobody's there.
He said, tourism is down dramatically, okay?
That's the guy I was actually talking to.
Tourism is down dramatically, okay?
Tourism is down dramatically.
He looked like that guy.
Tourism is down dramatically.
Events are up.
So people doing conventions, Vegas is slowly taking over Orlando.
It used to be Orlando for many years for convention town.
But Vegas has becoming a convention capital of America today.
Tom, would you agree with that at Vegas?
Is it now?
Yeah, very much so.
They've built a lot of stuff they're trying to attract the convention crowd back
and a lot of things since COVID.
But now all of a sudden, they don't have the other half of it.
They don't have the tourism.
Yeah.
So to me, you know, when you hear stories like this with Vegas, you're talking to drivers.
You're talking to different people.
You're talking to what people are saying.
It is kind of happening.
It's just not what it once was 25 years ago.
We used to go to Vegas, Vinnie.
Oh, man.
If you think about it.
I mean, it is.
So now what companies put Vegas out of business?
Only fans.
Okay.
Online gambling.
Yeah.
Tinder.
You know who else is who's putting Vegas out of business in a big way?
Everybody who's a health podcaster that's got young men not drinking, not gambling, not smoking, not doing, like they're changing the habits of health.
So you're like, why am I going to go there, do that?
The habits are changing.
Chip Wilson and I did a podcast about 10 years ago.
Chip Wilson is the founder of Lulu Lemon.
And he said something to me.
He says, Patrick, in 20 years.
almost everybody in America will be in shape
or will know whether they're in shape or not.
But you're going to see six packs are no longer going to be a big deal.
I said, why is that?
He says, because clothes are going to become smart.
Clothes, you're going to wear clothes,
and the clothes are going to tell you,
stand up and walk for five minutes.
Yeah, watches are doing it already.
He's going to say, go drink some water.
Your body is this.
He's going to say, we're going to have smart clothes,
not smart watches, not smart clothes,
things that you wear, right?
So who knows what's going to happen to Vegas
with the stuff that they're experiencing right now.
I kind of wanted to share that because I was in Vegas yesterday.
And I saw that article.
I said,
probably a good idea for us to bring it up.
I don't look like you want to say something about it.
I was just going to do what are they going to do to fix it?
Well, yeah,
I was just going to say that.
I mean,
every company is going to have to,
or every attraction or every city is at that point
going to have to reinvent themselves.
So, you know, what's the value prop that Vegas brings to the table?
Pat, you highlighted it.
I was just going to kind of reiterate that gambling.
Less people are gambling.
And if you can do it, you can do it online.
You can do sports gambling.
You don't need to go to Vegas.
to do that drinking less people are drinking you talked about that sex you don't need to go all
the way to Vegas you know what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas yeah what also happens on only fans
can stay on only fans or on Tinder on Grindr, shout out to you Mike Johnson nightlife I mean less
people are going out there parting as much these days people used to go get married in Vegas
Britney Spears famously got married in Vegas who nobody's getting married these days who's crazy
who does that so they need to reinvent themselves Vegas used to be known Sinatra
Elvis.
Have you ever seen the movie Swingers when they're like,
we're going to Vegas.
Nobody's excited for Vegas anymore.
PPD is actually single-handedly keeping Vegas afloat with his conferences,
and that's exactly what they're doing.
So what's the new value of Vegas is bringing to the table?
Nothing.
Really?
Actually, think about it.
Like, what can they do the shift?
You know, Oakland A's are about to go to Vegas.
Did you know that?
Tom, did you know that?
Yes, the Oakland Azo play in Sacramento until the stadium is built in Vegas.
Yeah, we drove by.
they're building a stadium on the strip.
That's the stadium right there.
Look at that.
Oakland Athletics are relocating to Vegas.
Go back, Rob.
That's what they're thinking.
Is that what it's going to look like?
That's a sick looking stadium.
Sick, but horrible timing right now.
It's going to hot as hell to go over there.
Hot as hell to go over there.
Nobody's there.
Do you think Vegas can reinvent themselves and make a comeback, Pat?
Do you think bookstores can reinvent themselves and make a comeback?
Nope.
No.
Why?
Because audio books.
Well, they can if they completely change their business model.
Which is what?
You know, if you, bookstores used to be a place to go buy books.
Just like Starbucks was a place to go buy coffee.
At this point, social gatherings and getting people together still is important, right?
Why do we do the vault?
Hey, you can go watch it online.
The mall.
I go to the mall to get shit.
Come on there.
So people are still going to want to hang out, but what they're going to do when they're hanging out, I guess, varies.
But bookstores, if you, you know, have reasons to come together, get together, group settings, what have you.
Nobody goes to a bookstore to buy a book.
That's what you buy Amazon or Audible or anything like that.
That was the theory of, you know,
the theory that they had on the Oakland Raiders going to Las Vegas
was that, you know, Adam and I, let's say,
we live in Cleveland.
And, you know, we have a couple friends.
We love the Cleveland Browns.
And it's December 10th.
It's cold.
It's between Thanksgiving and Christmas,
not much going on in Cleveland.
But Cleveland will be at the Raiders in Las Vegas.
We say, hey, man, let's grab a Southwest flights
and let's go out to Las Vegas.
and see the Browns play the Raiders this weekend.
And they pull a lot of away team fans into Vegas for those games.
But guess what?
Those people do not spend as much as they thought they would be spending Pat in Vegas.
They go to average hotels.
They come to see the Browns play.
They go back.
They're not dropping another $1,000, $2,000 on partying and gaming.
They're not.
So the whole thesis about the Raiders being a magnet for all the away team fans,
Yeah, it's a small magnet.
It's coming true, but not a big magnet.
No, it's what I said to the driver yesterday.
I said, no, who goes to road game baseball games?
Nobody goes to go road baseball games.
Except if it's the big names, Cardinals, Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers,
who else you put on that list?
No, no one's going to Marlins on the road.
You're not doing that.
So what was your point with the bookstore?
If you think bookstores are not making a comeback,
Vegas is not going to make the same comeback,
because technology put them out.
Wow.
Tinder, you know, a bumble, only fans.
Every, you know how they say what happens to Vegas stays in Vegas?
No, nowadays is what happens on only fans, what happens on Tinder,
what happens on, you know, online casinos, it's there now.
It's there now that you have.
So who knows?
I have a lot of great memories in Vegas as a young man coming up and I was in Vegas quite often.
At one point, I was going every other week.
I would drive up Zizzix.
If anybody knows that exit, right?
Zizzii, Zizik.
So if you know.
No, no, Zizik.
Dirty.
Dirty.
You're a dirty man.
I learned Armenia from.
Dirty, dirty, dirty man.
Here's what I, can I give a contradicting statement right now?
I think, actually, my buddy, Michael Sartain talks about this in Vegas.
So cities start to expand.
And then they reach the breaking point where it's like, all right, we have too many clubs.
We have too many venues.
We have too many nightlife things going.
We have too many casinos.
stop building and then they're going to they're going to contract and still the great
casinos will still exist still the great clubs like excess events not going to work
marquee and all this stuff that jason strous and these guys do will still exist but the newcomers
they will fall off it's like if you have 10 great bars in your city and that's the max and then
you try to invent 12 15 20 all right those 10 are going to go out of business but the original 10
will stay let's let's go to let's go to another story here to see if we're going to be pulling this off or
not. Will PBD podcast go to Dearborn for a podcast? Well, let's find that. Dearborn Islamic Center
holds Memorial mourning a year after Hezbollah's chief, Nasra Allah, martyr. Okay? Let me read this
because this is Adam's story. Okay, so here we go. A Dearborn Michigan Islamic Institute
hosted a memorial marking one year since Hezbollah, Chief Hassan Nasrallah's death, praising U.S.
designated terror leaders' bravery,
featuring tributes to Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and telling attendees the Iranian rulers
are leader, held this past Friday at Hadi Youth Community Center, the event marked the one-year
anniversary of the organizations.
Organizers called Nasrallah's martyrdom and drew attendees, including parents with young children.
Hezbollah is designated by the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organization, Usama Abdul-Gani,
described by the group as a Hadi Institute's spiritual leader and linked to
The affiliate K5 Haddi Montessori School addressed the audience beside a framed portrait of Nasrallah during a live stream program.
And here's what he had to say.
I welcome each and every one of you.
This is occasion that many of us probably never thought we would live to see.
We never imagined that our say it would be martyred in our lifetime and that one year would have passed since his martyrdom.
Brothers sisters, we were blessed to be in the presence.
of one of Allah's greatest Auliyah.
Now, of course, we miss him.
We miss his smile.
We miss his love for humanity.
We miss how he would clarify what was going on on the ground for us,
how he would tell us our responsibility.
We miss his bravery.
This camp, the camp of divine resistance,
the camp of Hussein, is now led by our leader,
Imam Khamanai.
Hopefully, the martyrdom of the Sayyid was, what inspired us to be like the Sayyid.
One lesson from the Sayyid.
One of the best points about the Sayyid, and he had so many, was his strength when it came to explaining the truth.
Everyone loved him.
Everyone.
Pause it right there.
And Sean.
Adam, thoughts.
So to be clear, this is a.
Muslim cleric in Dearborn, Michigan, singing praises for Hassan Nasrallah, who was the leader of
Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist mafia regime.
Just to be clear, that's who he's talking about.
Checking notes.
Yep, you're right.
Everybody loved him.
He was our hero.
He was our martyr.
Love for humanity is my favorite part.
Any normal American, forget about where you stand on Israel.
This is an enemy to the United States.
What Hezbollah has done, starting with the Marine barracks in the 80s when they killed.
How many Marines, Tom?
2069, I believe.
Okay.
To this day, you know, they say, show me your friend.
Show me your future.
Who were his friends?
Who were his friends?
He's saying the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.
The IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard, right?
The Quds Force.
General Soleimani, these are his friends.
Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
That was his buddy.
the man who helped kill, what, almost a million Syrians?
Don't say anything about that, because we can't talk about that.
Hamas, Ishmael Haniyah, Yaya Sinwar.
Do you know these names?
Palestinian Islamic jihad.
These are his friends.
And now we have people in America saying, that's our guy.
This is what we love.
This is our martyr.
So much so that we're holding memorial and we, what, want to name a street after this guy?
guys the downstream effect of what's going on here is in America you could say whatever you want to say believe what you want to believe but there's going to be a culture clash at one point you know we see what's happening in the UK now Tommy Robinson just a list of events in the last few weeks Tommy Robinson did what a million Brit March were to come out and just show love there was zero issues zero what is he talking about he's talking about Muslim extremism Pakistani rape gangs what's going on there the week after
that, Kier Starrmer, the progressive leftist prime minister of the UK came out and recognized
the state of Palestine. A week after that, it's Yom Kippur in London, the holiest day of the Jewish
year, a Muslim terrorist named Jihad. That's his name. Comes out and kills two people,
two Jews, trying to go to synagogue. So the downstream effects of, okay, were evangelizing
martyrs and we're basically paying
homage to terrorists. Now
the downstream, the woke left has
teamed up with the Islamic right.
It's called the red, green
synergist. And now
you have Keir Starmer recognizing Palestine and then
two Jews get killed on their way
to temple by a literal
jihadist. I mean, you could
say that you can't make this stuff up, but
this is the reality that we're living right now.
This is Kier Starrmer when he
recognized the state of Palestine. Go for it.
In the face of
the growing horror in the Middle East, we are acting to keep alive the possibility of peace
and a two-state solution. That means a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable Palestinian state.
At the moment, we have neither. Ordinary people, Israeli and Palestinian,
deserve to live in peace
to try to rebuild their lives
free from violence and suffering.
That's what the British people
desperate...
Stop it right there. So this is what I want to go to
with this. Next story is
Israel gives Palestinians last opportunity
to flee Gaza City
as full-scale invasions looms.
So this whole thing about Qatar,
this whole thing about the apology,
this whole thing about
the back and forth that took place,
This could be the first time, Tom, that a Muslim country like Qatar is going to find a way to side with Israel to prevent Hamas may be left by themselves by a lot of people if they're not getting that support, right?
If that ends up taking place.
Rob, what is that clip that you have there?
This was just the announcement yesterday that Israel has given the people in Gaza their final warning to get out of the city.
Go ahead, Rob.
Israel's defense minister today said Gaza city was nearly fully encircled, the last chance for civilians to get out.
On the coast road, those able to flee on foot, afford the cost of transport, of somewhere to sleep at the other end, were doing so as the city behind them continued to be pounded.
Everything's being fired at us, everything's destroyed, there are explosions everywhere, there's nothing left for us.
Another reason for this renewed scramble, Israel's warning that this road would soon be partially blocked.
The Israeli military said the checkpoint would be placed on the intersection of the Al-Rashid coastal road
and what Israel calls the Netsarim Corridor.
Civilians would still be allowed south with inspections, but travel north back towards Gaza City would be prohibited.
But this afternoon, no checkpoint, instead reports of approaching tanks and gunfire from the air.
A patch of land meters away repeatedly strafed.
On one of the donkey carts, a teenager nursing what looks at first like an injured arm.
But in reality is barely that.
His left hand connected to his body by little more than bone.
Injured by shelling that killed a woman and two young children, as they too headed towards
supposed safety.
When we got to the Nezaheim crossing, we found out of the Nezharim crossing, we found
out that there was bombing going on and tanks firing and quadcopters and people dead on the road.
The war is a nasty thing.
You can pause right there.
So Tom, what do you think is going to happen here?
Because the back and forth is the 20 point that we read yesterday or on Wednesday, right?
Is this, Rob, is this?
So I have Trump and Netanyahu.
This is from the press conference where they announced the peace deal.
And here's what both of them said if Hamas doesn't agree to the ceasefire, which earlier this morning it was reported they're not.
I think they're egging Hamas on, and they're trying to get others like a Qatar to agree with them for the first time.
So that would be Qatar, Israel, and U.S. being on the same page where Hamas may be left stranded.
I think they're cornering Hamas.
Whether it works or not, who knows.
But go ahead, Rob.
Play this clip.
Amas rejects the deal, which is always possible.
They're the only one left.
Everyone else has accepted it.
But I have a feeling that we're going to have a positive answer.
But if not, as you know, Bibi, you'd have more full backing to do what you would have to do.
Okay, for you to do what you have to do.
And then this is what Bibi said.
But if Hamas rejects your plan, Mr. President, or if they...
...your plan.
Supposedly accepted and then basically do everything to counter it.
Then Israel will finish the job by itself.
This can be done the easy way, or it can be done the hard way.
Tom, what are you thinking?
I think basically that there's a lot of discussions that are going on in the background of who gets what.
Because just like when they negotiated what was going to happen with Berlin,
and now we look back over history, and we find all the side deals and everything that went with that,
with the Russians, the British and the Americans negotiating on.
Berlin, which ended there, it's a similar thing. Over the history of war, you come down to the end
and you put it all together. And I think, I think right now, the rest of the world is in a
spot where Hamas is being left where they are, and they have a choice. And you either do it
this way or you take this deal. And I thought to myself, what are the odds that if I'm negotiating
with somebody, two and three
point deals. And Pat, this happens in business.
A two and three point deal, you can
usually get through it as long as none
of those points are crazy points.
You can get people to it. But a 20 point
deal seems to be a little more
complicated. How do you get somebody like
Hamas that doesn't have a working
government? I have an idea. Huh? I have an idea.
I think I have an idea, but go ahead. I want to
go ahead. But I think that
and I'm going to use a word here, but
is Hamas
being either baited or
dared not to do it.
And then Israel is now going to get the green light from the U.S. and Qatar to basically do what
they've announced right there, which is make the final sweep through the city, everything
gets cleaned out, and then we get to this area that will be managed by a consortium
that's chaired by Trump.
Vinnie.
I mean, just, and you said it, war is, is hell.
All those people, my heart is just like all those people that are leaving,
those kids and the moms and all the, even the men.
I notice how everybody always says women and children.
There's young boys too here, just like the guy you saw, where are they going?
Like, where are they supposed to go?
And it's like, I see them bombing and you guys saw what Gaza looks like at this point.
As long as these hostages are there and Bibi made it clear, they're going to keep going.
So my thing is like, just hurry up and get it.
If you're going to do what you're going to do regardless, it's been dragged out for two years,
just do it go down there and I said this on Wednesday
people are going to die
the odds are these hostages because as long as this
I don't believe Hamas Pat at all
you're negotiating with terrorists like they're going to go
yeah you know what
Donald Trump said this they don't care those people are
willing they want to die to martyr themselves
they want to go to heaven and get their virgins
and guess what killing Jewish people in their mind is a bonus
so it's like how long how long
And I have no...
Where are these people going to go, Pat?
Like, they're walking to where?
Just the south of Gaza to go where?
Stand outside.
Nobody's taking them in Gaza.
You know what I mean?
I think this has been a two-year dragged-out thing.
We know what you were going to do.
Do it.
Get it over with.
And then you're mad because everybody's judging Israel.
It's like, bro, hurry up.
This was going to happen anyway.
You were going to do it.
It was inevitable.
But you don't want the optics.
I think it had been done a completely different way than they're doing it.
I just feel bad for those people.
What do you think what Vinnie said?
Well, I think Vinny is using common sense and he's using his eyes.
And I understand Vinny's been sort of, you know,
taking the side of he doesn't want to see people dead.
And I respect that.
But at the same time, nobody wants to see people dead other than jihadists.
But war is ugly and it's messy.
And it's not fun.
I know people fighting in the IDF.
And none of them say, bro, my goal in life is to go kill Palestinians.
They literally say, I'm protecting Israel.
I'm trying to be here to get the hostages back, and I'm following orders.
But the linchpin here, you know, there's the United States, there's Israel, there's the Palestinians, we know that Iran, but the linchpin here on this specific thing is Qatar.
Now, Qatar has a choice.
You know, nobody's mentioned Qatar up until they got the World Cup and all of a sudden, they're like, who the hell is Qatar?
They're one of the wealthiest, smallest countries in the world.
They're an oil Gulf state.
Now, Qatar has a choice to enter the world of working together, world peace, solving issues,
or you can continue to do what you've been doing and funding terrorism.
You can't have it both ways because the world is on to you.
Here's even Trump commenting on what Qatar does.
The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.
And in the wake of that conference, nations came together and spoke to me about confronting
Qatar over its behavior.
So we had a decision to make.
Do we take the easy road or do we finally take a hard but necessary action?
We have to stop the funding.
Yeah.
So I don't know when that's from.
Whenever it's from, that's the reality is Qatar has been funding terrorism.
I would nothing love better, nothing more than Qatar to say, you know what?
Let me go take a page out of what the UAA has done and normalized relationships.
Let me see what Saudi is doing and position themselves as a place that you're actually a dealmaker and a peacemaker,
not funding terrorism all over the world.
Here's what I think is going on.
Here's what I think is going on with the 20 point.
The 20 point is so difficult to accomplish, so difficult to agree upon, so difficult to accept that they know Hamas is not going to follow the 20 points.
But this is their way of putting Hamas on blast to the world and, and in a very weird way, this is going to sound weird, in a very weird way.
my opinion, folks, this is not based on anything else.
I could be wrong.
In a way, I think Trump is forcing Qatar
to not side with Hamas
where Qatar has to distance themselves from Hamas.
And then at the same time,
that call that they say him and BB had,
that was an intense call, I believe it happened.
Where he's like, what the hell is wrong with your attack?
in Qatar. You better apologize. So I think Trump used, Trump has so much like a power right now,
the way he's been able to put everybody in their place, my opinion, that he sees decisions like,
hey, Qatar, listen, we know your history. Relax. We know what you did to get the World Cup. Relax.
We know what you funded over the years. Calm down. Israel. We all know what you want. I mean,
we get it. We understand. Okay. But if you want me,
me to broker this deal, don't go out of your way and try to do something to Qatar when you know
you need Qatar in this situation. So it's like, hey, Hamas, Qatar, you need Israel, Israel needs
Qatar, pump the brakes, relax. Everybody needs to get rid of Hamas because if you're not for
getting rid of Hamas, I'm not going to do deals with you, Qatar. And Qatar is probably behind
closed doors asking for something. So my intuition is that in the next three months, there could
be an announcement made of something that benefits Qatar. It's something that Qatar is asking.
Do you know what I'm saying, Tom? Like, Qatar is asking for something. Like, if we help you out,
what do we get? You want me to do this for you? You better get behind this and say, Hamas is done
and you don't support it. And Qatar is like, well, well, well, well, what, then don't. But you don't
understand. No, no, but no, but no, you don't understand. You're asking me. I don't, I'm not asking
You for nothing.
So I think there's a bigger offer on the table that Qatar is going to choose over Hamas.
And I think Qatar, whether they want to or not, I think they'll sacrifice Hamas to get the bigger deal that they want from the president.
And I don't know what that deal is.
I tend to agree with you.
There's a couple things about Qatar we have to take a look at.
There is a massive investigation that went into the World Cup group.
And there's a guy that ran the World Cup.
and it was rumored that Qatar basically rigged the World Cup being awarded, and that whole thing was just stunk
because it's supposed to bring common people together in countries that have a tradition of what international calls football.
So that's France, that's Italy, that's Germany, that's Brazil, that's Argentina.
PPD, those should be the countries to get a World Cup.
And in the U.S., you know, the U.S. women have won three of six World Cups, looking back.
It was there.
But Qatar was so corrupt in that.
And then they've also been funding the terrorism.
I believe that Trump is cornering Qatar.
I agree with you into something.
And now Qatar has to agree to it to get other things they need.
I mean, I don't think it's any mistake.
Oh, Mr. President, you like big planes?
here. Here's one. And they give you the big plane. And yeah, I want every inch of that plane scrubbed, you know, for anything, right? And so I think Qatar is being called to account. And I agree with you. There's something big beneath the surface because the president is pulling the leash on them at the same time. He's trying to corner, I believe, the Hamas. Can I give you one different perspective, Pat?
Because I understand that Trump probably said, listen, Bibi, we got to get a deal with Qatar.
So we need you to apologize because we do need them.
And they do.
But at the same hand, I actually think that Israel sort of forced Qatar's hand.
Because if you look at what Israel did, I mean, listen, what Israel has done with the beepers in Lebanon, taking out what they've done with Gaza.
Think about the capitals.
They've, Beirut with Hezbollah, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Tehran, what they've done.
And then they went after Doha, the capital of Qatar, or the major city in Qatar.
Now, Qatar was now forced to do something about it.
And I'm sure on one hand, Trump was like, listen, you know, we got a base in Qatar.
We got to be friends with these guys.
And they didn't hit the same middle of Norway.
Exactly.
They hit that residential area where the guy was staying.
And now that war, that Qatar has been slowly funding, now that thing just hit home.
And it's like, whoa, whoa.
You know, we've been doing this in all these other cities.
Now it's happening in our house.
no no no no no no no so were they a fan of that obviously not were they upset with that of course
but did that force Qatar to say all right guys we'll come to the table now because now you're doing
stuff in our house is that the best approach for Israel to do I don't know but if this still gets done
you could look at that moment when Israel attacked Qatar it's as a pivotal moment here if this gets
done what a freaking beautiful way to corner Qatar what a beautiful way to corner Qatar honestly like
And I'm talking purely from a strategic standpoint.
That's it.
Yeah.
I mean, what a way on the public scale to corner Qatar, okay?
And get them to play ball.
If it happens, who knows?
Again, we're still going through this.
What are the odds do you think this deal happens?
That what?
That Thomas releases the hostages.
They work out a deal.
The 72-hour thing.
I don't think that's what they're doing.
I think the way you look at when you're making an offer like this,
you have to look from the binary standpoint.
What are the odds Hamas is going to do it?
No, destroy them.
Hey, put it on Hamas.
What is the odds that Hamas is going to be like,
oh, shit, we better release them.
Release them.
Then what are you going to do?
It's one of the two things that is going to happen.
But either way, Hamas is screwed.
Hamas is screwed because they got the funders.
They got the other side.
They're like, ah, shit.
Do we want to play ball and be cool?
Do we want to be on the bigger scale of everything that's going on?
I think they got, and by the way, you know, Israel's biggest challenge right now,
whatever people want to call it, Israel's biggest challenge right now is around,
what is that article that you want to respond to Adam?
I want to go to that because it kind of goes with this.
The one that says how the world feels about Israelis.
What is that?
Israel?
Yeah, where's that one right there?
Okay, there it is.
So check this out.
New York Times poll, support for Israel drops almost entirely due to Democrats.
This is Breitbart.
Rob, if you can pull this up.
So, here we go.
Americans where it's under the plummeting,
but remains largely steady amongst Republicans.
A new poll revealed Monday the drop is almost entirely
to a precipitous decline in support
for Israel amongst Democrats.
The New York Times, Sydney and Siena poll
was reported under the headline.
American support for Israel dramatically declined.
However, the real news was buried paragraphs later.
Much of the shift in views of Israel
has been driven by a sharp decline in support by Democratic voters.
Republicans largely support to continue Israel.
Seven and ten Republicans say they support providing additional aid to Israel.
Interesting.
A majority of Republicans say Israel should continue to military campaign until all hostages were released,
even if it meant civilian casualties.
47% said that the Israeli military was taking enough precautions to prevent civilian deaths.
Republicans still sympathize with Israel more than Palestinian.
Palestinians 64% to 9%. Wow. But those numbers indicate a drop of support of 12 percentage points
from 2023 when it was 76% siding with Israel. One of those reasons for the Democrats
failing support for Israel is the increasing radicalization of the party. Okay, so let me get
the straight. So Republicans dropped from 76 to 64 and 2 years, 12%. But what is it saying about Democrats?
It doesn't even show the numbers.
I would love to find those numbers.
Can you actually go to the article, Rob,
and see if it drops the Democratic numbers?
Go ahead, Adam.
You wanted to talk about this.
Well, yeah, I mean,
the Democrat, is this the numbers right here?
Do you think isn't intentionally,
what about approval ratings?
Do you have that anywhere, Rob?
It has to be in the article with New York Times.
No charts.
I can check, though.
Okay.
Well, I mean, this is what I've been saying all along.
The Democratic Party at this point is no friend to America.
Israel, our allies, the Democratic Party stands for...
Right there, right there, right there.
Nearly two years ago, Democrats were divided evenly
with 34% sympathizing with Israel, 31% sympathizing with Palestinians.
Now, Rackenfow Democrats across the country overwhelmingly side with Palestinians, 54%.
So it went from 34 to Israel to now only 13%.
That's a 21% drop-off for Democrats.
And Palestinians went from 31% to 54%.
So it's really 54 pro-Palestine,
only 13% pro-Israel in the New York Times article.
More than 8 in 10 Democrats said Israel should stop the war,
even if the country had not achieved its goals,
a notable increase from roughly 60%
who said the same thing two years ago.
Go ahead.
Yeah, look, as Tom says, words talk, Vinnie screams.
And that's what's going on here right now.
The Democratic Party is no friend to America at this point.
Yes.
So forget about Israel.
Let's isolate Israel.
Let's talk about America.
You know, the right of America,
I'm not talking about the extreme right,
and I'm not talking about the extreme left.
I'm saying the right of America,
they have one thing that the Democratic Party is lacking.
is just common sense guys
when you think of someone wearing an
American flag pin
what party do you think of? Republicans or Democrats?
It's not even close. When you think of someone
burning the American flag
Democrat? Who do you think of?
Democrat. Bingo. So, you know, Americans, say what you want
to say about these, you know, white Christian
nationalists. They love America, bro.
And they love the Constitution. They love God. They love what
our country was founded on. They understand
that we're not perfect, but they want to perfect
and have progress in our land.
The Democratic Party, they don't stand for the flag.
They stand for every other flag out there,
and I wish they didn't.
They're doing the LGBTQ flag.
You good here, Pat?
I mean, I start the water even lower.
Pat, what did I tell you about interrupting me
when I'm talking, Pat?
Unbelievable.
The Democratic Party.
Adam's about to get smacked up.
That's true.
Pop out?
Listen, we don't need a gaze for Gaza issue right now, Pat.
Let's just keep the cross-border situation.
Let's be friends here.
Finish your point, by.
Okay.
But the Democratic Party,
They believe in every other flag other than the American flag, the LGBT flag, the trans flag, the BLM flag, the gays for Gaza flag.
Flag, flag, flag, flag, flag, flag, flag, flag, flag, flag, flag, yes, I threw that in there.
But, you know, you look at the people who represent the Democratic Party at this point, the AOCs, the Rashida Talibes, the Ilhan Omar's, the Greta Thumburg doing her little sailing expedition out there.
This is where we're at.
And it just goes to show, excuse me, sir, did I do something wrong?
man you really you're good okay we're an interactive podcast we can move around you gotta
you gotta roll with the punches here yeah anyway am I about to get slapped no this is
well you gotta stay focused right now so okay let's go to next door no but make you got 20
I try to but I'm waiting you've been going for quite some time so let me land this plane
to any Jew out there yeah who still thinks they're a Democrat like I was in the past
who thinks that you know you're all about Tecun Olam and helping the war
you're helping the people that want to eliminate you. You're helping the what's the dude in
New York? Mom Donnie, you're helping these people. You're helping the Greta Thumburgs of the
world. And that's what's happening there. And it turns out that all the stories that we've been
hearing about the right is done with Israel. The stats don't say that at all. Still the vast
majority of Republicans and conservatives still support Israel. You know, I know that Charlie Kirk
wrote that letter to Beebe. I don't know if you guys addressed this. And
It was, I'm on your side.
I'm here for you.
I'll always defend you.
But here's some suggestions that I think you can do better.
Now, there's some talking heads on the internet.
I won't name names, but they sort of rhyme with Schmandishmohens.
And they're talking and literally telling lies about this letter for Bibi Netanyahu
or telling lies about the meeting that happened with Bill Ackman.
So it turns out that Charlie was right.
Tell me about the letter.
Because I don't know what people are saying about the letter.
Okay, here's the actual letter.
I haven't heard anything about, like, I've heard about it, but I didn't read any of it.
It's pretty long.
I'm not going to do it.
I'll summarize it.
Rob, can you put it on Chad, GPTN, say summarize what's in the letter?
Thank you.
And I'll do my best.
Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I'm your friend.
I want the best for you.
I'll always be by your side.
At the same time, here's a few suggestions that I would recommend to win the hearts and minds of people to come on your side.
Which is the right way to write a letter.
Yes.
You're losing the PR.
war because TikTok owned by China and the youth is following the lead of the Gays for Gaza
Brigade and the Free Palestine Brigade and the TikTok owns our youth. Here's my suggestion to combat
what we're seeing. I'm here for you. I want to be your friend. Allow me to help you. Here's my
suggestions. It came as a friend. Here let me read it. Kirk from his letter. That's what's a deep love for
Israel. Jews to press his alarm over rising anti-Israel anti-Semitic numbers. Okay, got it. His
Quar arguments that Israel lose an information war, especially online, which he warns
that will erode political and military support for U.S.
He states that this negative message flows downstream from social media to campuses
to even conservative circles.
Kirka recounts how during the campus speaking towards a large share of the questions he received
or hostile towards Israel, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, subsidizing genocide.
He notes that sometimes he feels like he ends up defending Israel more vehemently
than the Israeli government itself on those fronts, criticism Israel's.
He takes issues with Israel relying heavily on surrogates and non-Israel's to defend its narrative.
He criticized the style of Israel's public diplomacy, press briefings, and spokespeople that seem outdated and passive standing at a dimly lit podium reminiscent of 1970s coverage.
Interesting, very detailed.
He gives a seven-point proposal, built a rapid response media communications team, a key in a political campaign,
Okay, create an Israel Truth Network, a central hub platform from debunking misinformation, aggressive pro-Israel content, and coordinating with influencers, educators, and social media voices.
Okay, go a little bit higher, Rob.
Sending release hostages on a U.S. speaking tour.
Interesting.
Promote Israel's everyday life stories, interview in ordinary Israelis, Jews, Arab, secular religious about what they love about Israel and responding to misinformation directly, framing the Israel narrative more like a political campaign, defining Israel's identity, proactive.
responding to attacks, deploying
surrogates, and building a first-person voice
for Israel in English, more
clearly articulating the Iranian threat and Israel
position to
skeptical younger audience and targeting younger
communicate, recruit more staff in their 20s,
let me tell you, this is why
I missed the guy.
Are you freaking kidding me?
Like, this is why I loved Charlie Kirk.
Like, this is how you need, this is diplomacy.
You know, he's telling you, I'm talking to kids
and they're not siding with you.
But here's my suggestion to you.
And he didn't do this publicly to get credit for it.
He had to get killed for us to read this.
What I take away from this has nothing to do with Israel, has nothing to do with kids.
It has to do with how special of a guy this guy was.
It upsets the hell out of me that we lost this guy.
The more I hear stories like this, this guy was truly a synergist get killed, man.
It's unfortunate.
Sinner just, you know, is a very tough job to have.
when you're a synergist you know what you're trying to do you're in the middle telling both sides your shit stinks
and guess who likes you both sides end up hating you because you're willing to stand up and say relax
pump the brakes like i'm giving sincere feedback and you take a guy out like this that his influence
was growing exponentially anyways what were you going to were you going to make a point with this letter
because we didn't address it or the whole concept of what we're talking about is charlie kirk
it was people have used Charlie Kirk's death
to gain eyeballs and followers
and promote their own opinions and their own agenda
and you know exactly who I'm talking about
but the reality is this
this letter of Charlie Kirk denouncing Israel
is anything but that. I want to say something on that. Let me say something on that.
Sure. Let me say something on that. And I'm not one that is
uncomfortable
in any of these situations. This is what I'll tell you.
If we follow Hanlon's razor, okay, you have to follow it for people you like and people you don't like.
Hanlon's razor is never attribute a malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity or what?
It encourages people to consider less malevent, more mundane explanations such as incompetence error or lack of information before assuming someone active with bad intentions.
There's also quote in this by Napoleon, which I'll read.
A lot of time people quote, give credit to this quote to Napoleon.
Here's what Napoleon once said.
Napoleon once said, I want to read this to you,
never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
And Goet, if I'm saying it correctly, old guy that would write plays from 1774.
In one of the plays he wrote, it said the following,
misunderstanding and neglect create more confusion in the world than deceit and malice.
Let me read it again.
misunderstanding and neglect
create more confusion
in the world than deceit and malice
misunderstanding and neglect
it's a misunderstanding
it's a neglect
more than deceit and malice
a part of what you're saying right now
is to say that
they're using this to make money
I don't know I mean
somebody could honestly say
you guys have done 20 clips on Charlie Kirk
and they could actually make the argument about that
we have and our ad sense is on
So what are people going to say, we're not doing this and we're not doing? You're running a business and you're talking about the story. And you're doing whatever questioning you may have on this. Where I will tell you with this on where I'm at today personally and I want to transition out of districts, I didn't mean to spend, I wasn't planning on going into reading this letter. I've not even read this. I just know there was a letter. I hadn't read the whole thing for the first time I read the seven points that he had is the following. I have no problem with anybody questioning.
on what happened here.
No problem.
Even if you get paid,
I have no problem.
What upsets me is
federal employees
whose job is you get paid to question
who has access to the information,
why are you not?
That's where I'm at.
The problem I had at the beginning
was jump into conclusion
that Israel's behind it.
That's Hanlon's razor.
That's lack of, you know,
you just want to find somebody
to blame because it validates your argument.
don't need that. That's divisive. That's what gets even more. But what I kind of want to know is,
you know, this guy was good for America, the country I live in with, raising four kids. Selfishly,
I wanted Charlie to live to 95 years old because I got four kids. Selfishly, you need more brave
men like this. We lost one of the most important guys in the future. Now, don't get me wrong,
this is not like it's the end of the world. Let's sit there and we're not going to be able to figure
out. Leaders step up. We're going to step up and do our part. I'm not sitting here worried about it.
should you got us on our side we're going to figure this thing out collectively together but i don't
mind if somebody who gets paid to do a podcast ask some questions who federal employees don't want to
ask and whether you like or don't like that individual ask away oh pat i'm with you but there's a big
distinction here in my opinion we've talked about how many times when you have an opinion you say
the following here's what i think this is my opinion i could be wrong but this is what i think
I have no problem with anybody, literally anybody asking questions.
There's a difference between a question, my opinion, and then facts,
and then I have the receipts, trust me, trust me, bro, and you're literally lying.
So we have to call out bullshit when we see it.
You know what I think it is.
You know what I think it is.
Here's what I think.
I think you're make a very good point when somebody comes out and says what.
I know exactly what happened, without showing the receipts.
Very annoying.
very annoying and you lose credibility with that you gaslight everybody and and and sometimes you know
sometimes there is that what's the word in media where you have um uh journalistic integrity
no no it's not journalistic integrity where you are tempted to be the first to be like you got it
breaking news because it brings so much eyeballs of course but dude if you were wrong man let me tell
we're on a flight back i don't know if i'm i'm on a flight back yesterday and we're talking about
somebody in business.
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And this one girl gets up on stage
who was at our Arizona office.
She gets up on stage.
She hands this gift to me.
It was a TSP gift with pictures
and everything in it and things written by her.
She's on stage crying for five, ten minutes
on how much I've changed her life.
And we're outside my office
and Northridge, and we're walking.
And I'm asking a question, who's going to be the player,
on everybody's list, she was on the list.
You know what she did a month later?
Left, took business, talk trash,
and we had the best relationship together.
I was good with her boyfriend at the time, her fiancé.
We'd go to church.
We introduced her to the church that we'd go to.
Phenomenal.
Like overnight, this happens,
because another guy got in her ear and overnight.
this happened. What's the point here?
Dude, we have no idea what's going to happen with these stories
another 12, 24, 36 months. You have no idea who's going to be in business
five, ten years from now. You have no idea what's going to happen
in business. You hear a lot of different people.
But in the interim today, I have no problem with anybody that's
questioning anything. I will say, pump the brakes of jump
into a conclusion that you know for a fact what happened.
You lose credibility when you do that fair point there, but I have no problem
with anybody that's questioning things today. All right, let me get to the next
story here. What story have we not gotten into that we'd like
to get into Tom.
Did you want to talk about...
I know, but Tom's stories
are touching my elbow at this point.
Tom.
Take a story, Tom.
I want people to look at how many paper.
Like, Tom, what are you going?
Pick a story, Tom.
It's on my shoulder.
Did you want to talk about bad bunny?
What did you want to talk about?
You know what?
Let's talk about...
I hate trees.
My question.
Is there a story here with bad bunny or no?
Do we have a bad bunny story?
Okay, let's do it now, but that's Adam's story.
Dali.
Pah, pap, pap, papas.
There's a former individual J.OJ.
Custody.
changes. Tom, is there one you want me to go through here?
Pick a story that's your name listed next to it. Let's go through this.
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia.
Google is blocking searches for Trump and dementia. So Google appears to have blocked
the AI searches results for the query. Does Trump show signs of dementia as well as
other questions about his mental health, even though it shows AI results for similar
searches for other, about other presidents. When making the search about President Trump,
AI overreuse will display a message that says, as an AI overview is not available for
this shirts, go directly to AI mode and you'll be, you'll only receive a list of 10 web results
instead of a summarized page of information. Similar searches about Trump are limited in the same
way, various queries about dementia Alzheimer's and senility, senility, the senileility, being senile,
being senile, being senile, displayed to no AI review.
and only produce a list of links of AI mode.
Tom, why do you have a problem with this?
I'll tell you I have a problem with this,
because we need the social media groups
to spend time protecting kids that are underage from being on,
getting rid of fake accounts,
and as community notes does, I think, are a reasonable job,
but it could do even better on Twitter,
pointing out when it's an AI video or it's a fabrication.
And I think from that point, stay out of the way.
If you're going to operate the social media network, then stay out of the way.
The price of free speech is free speech.
And this pendulum will go back and forth.
And I think Google is being disingenuous.
And I'll tell you why.
August of 2024, Judge Meda ruled that Google violated antitrust laws.
The remedies came out in April 2025.
The closing arguments were heard in May 2025.
And now we're in the point of negotiating the settlement.
And we all saw these headlines in September a month ago.
It says the decision came down and said, well, guess what?
They're going to get to keep Chrome.
They're not going to make you get rid of the browser.
You're going to keep that.
And right now, there's active negotiations with the judge and with Google regarding the Android app distribution settlement.
that they date it back to 2023.
And so what do I think is right now?
The final implementation of remedies,
and I'm reading from a DOJ report,
from the core federal antitrust laws
will be pending the appeals process
that Google is entitled to
and was expected to take time
likely extending into 2026.
So what do I think is going on?
I think that this is trying to, you know,
give a little kiss on the cheek
to the Trump administration
because Google is still in hot water.
This is not done.
The implementation and the penalty phase is still on the table.
And I think what's going on is Google's doing that.
So I have two problems with it.
One, I think Google is trying to play nice with the administration
because they're in the middle of this very, very big deal
that's been five years in the making, number one.
But number two, I don't ever want the pendulum to come back the other way.
And so my point is protect kids, get rid of duplicate.
accounts, prevent retail fraud that happens when they impersonate stores, and sniff out the
AI videos and things, and allow the community notes to rain. That's what you should do. And for the
rest of it, stay out of the way. You think Trump actually got involved and told them, like,
hey, have this type of attitude? Like, I don't want people searching next. I didn't read any that. In my
research, I didn't read any of that there was any threat. I know. He's just asking me. I'm just
Do you think he's capable of asking a question like that?
Probably.
Okay.
So then...
Like, hey, guys, this whole...
I'm 50-50.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm 50-50.
Can I think Tom...
A part of it, a part of this to me is...
A part of it to me is you have...
Do one of two things.
And I'm okay with either one of these two things.
One.
Either don't give favors to whoever's the president
or be protected.
of both presidents.
So what does that mean?
If you want to minimize the amount of noise
linked to health and all this other stuff, fine.
And you're being fair to both. Fine.
Don't like it because I'm a freedom speech, but fine.
But at least you're being what?
Consistent with both.
Yep.
Or guess what?
Nope.
Like Tim Cook, nope.
We're not giving you Mr. Obama, San Bernardino.
We're not going to give you the stuff in the phone.
We have to go find it from a different person.
We're not going to give it to you.
To me, let me tell you, that's when I became a cook fan.
Yeah, respect.
Because you're like, if you're that family, you would be upset at cook.
Of course.
Imagine if that's you, you're like, dude, give me the freaking information.
I want to know this terrorist.
But at the same time, he's like, dude, I understand, but I'm running a company and I'm
protecting the privacy of all the other people that are members here.
Yep.
Which, by the way, Chad GBT right now, I don't know if I saw this story.
I don't know if we rolled it.
And I think I did.
There was a story about Chad GBT that said nowadays, Chad GBT,
is giving information to local authority when kids search on Chad GBT how to commit suicide.
Yeah.
Did you see this story, Rob?
If you can just, if you go to news, you type in Chad GBT and you type in suicide and go to news, it'll come up.
Just go to news.
Zoom, Ovalho launches a parental controls on Chad GPD after California team, so I go a little bit low, Rob.
So, Reuters open hours rolling out of parental control, Chad, GBT on the web and mobile on Monday,
following the lawsuit by parents of a teen
who died by suicide after an artificial intelligence
startups chat bot.
Are you kidding me?
This is how you should do it.
Coach them on methods of self-harm.
The controls let parents and teenagers opt in for stronger
safeguards by linking their accounts
where one party sends an invitation by parental controls
activate the U.S. regulators
are increasingly scrutinized.
They are companies over the parental negative impact
of chatbots in August. Reuters
had reported how meta
AI rules allowed
floridy conversations with kids under
new measures. Yeah, I mean,
so, you know, this is the part where we're kids
you've got to be careful with. That's a
Open AI has 700 million
weekly active users
for its ChadGBT product
is building an age prediction
system to help us predict where
whether a user is under 18
so the chatbot can automatically
apply teen parent. Yeah.
So the safeguards, this
is super necessary.
But to me with Google is make up your mind.
If you can every four years be like, oh, President Biden, you're great.
Oh, my God, President Trump, you're awesome.
Oh, my God.
President AOC, you are fantastic.
Oh, my God.
Nobody wants that.
Nobody wants that.
And I hope to have a backbone to do it to both sides.
Adam.
Well, please help me with my problem over at the Department of Justice.
Yeah.
Look, this is why America is by far and away the most important country.
in the world. We talk about America being the greatest country in the world, but sometimes we don't
talk about how important America is on the world stage. America is literally keeping the balance
between freedom of speech and misinformation and disinformation and balancing that alive.
You know, what's the whole point of freedom of speech? So you can say what you want to say.
The price of free speech is free speech. Liberty, freedom. We understand that. I think it was the
world economic form. They said that the biggest issues that we're going to come across in the next
handful of years is misinformation and disinformation and these deep fakes.
So helping, you know, curb those types of issues, public safety, you know, hurting people's
feelings.
There is that balance, that content moderation being, being free speech.
But if you extrapolate and go deeper, why America's so important, look at what the hell's
going on in the UK these days.
Are you seeing this?
The UK is arresting people for mean tweets.
Or looking at a, no, one kid got visited.
For looking.
I mean, there's multiple different examples of this.
But America, listen to my liberal friends out there,
you might not like what Trump is doing domestically.
But internationally, he's keeping this whole thing in the world afloat and together.
Because the authoritarian regimes of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea,
there's no free speech there.
There's nothing.
There's communism.
There's Marxism.
You know, London has basically been taken over by Islam.
Respect to you guys out there, Kirstarmer.
respect. But now you're starting to see the UK and Europe be anti-free speech. And, you know,
you've been offending people. So you're going to go to jail now. That's what's going on in the
UK. Tell me you've seen these stories. Oh, a thousand percent. What do you mean? This girl
liked the post. Cops showed up to her house to talk to them, bro. They're cooked. You know why?
They don't have the First Amendment. And guess what? The Second Amendment. You're not, you're not
treating freaking citizens when they got freaking good. You're not coming up by house to try to arrest me
for liking a post, bro. If you don't, if you don't think,
Starmor, come into the microphone and talking about, we're going to make it harder for people to stay.
We're going to start doing, making some changes.
If you don't think Tommy Robinson caused that, because all those people came out and there is nationalist pride
and people asking for law and order and people, the citizens out on the street, if you don't think
that took Starmor to the microphone, you're not paying attention.
I'm sure he's doing it.
Yeah, this is the clip, Robbie, if you want to play it.
But this is what makes it worse.
I don't like the camera.
You can have my body cam.
I can exhibit that to me.
I just don't like the camera, really.
Okay, well, I'm doing this because this is my own house and I am telling you why I'm doing.
So I just need to know why would she, she's basically viewed a post, which is not an arrestable offence.
Yeah, okay.
It happened in May and you're going to be fine.
The only thing is we need to seize the phone at this current moment.
Yeah.
Seize the phone because the girl liked a post.
We will escalate this further.
But with a voluntary interview.
So have you seized anyone else?
Is she the only child you're picking on?
Have you spoken to anyone else?
Oh my God.
No, we'll come to the station now.
Do you want to let her finish her sentence before?
She does have to get further escalates, unfortunately.
That's fine, we'll come to the station now.
The phone is it seized right now.
We're not able to basically get the phone.
We'd have to escalate the situation.
Your daughter will get arrested.
For what?
You in the social media post?
Oh my goodness.
Thank God for the consultation.
No, absolutely not.
What should we do?
No.
Present description of evidence.
Oh my God.
Lisa, I would like you to leave now.
I'd like you to leave.
I'd like you to leave.
I have nothing more to say to you.
A social media post.
I've got nothing more to say.
I'd like you to leave.
You've harassed this child.
Enough.
I'd like you to leave.
Lisa, that's no worries.
Like, this is like a comedy skit.
Okay, by the way, have you seen, there's countless videos.
I don't know how that woman, they go to jail.
Adam, you know why?
they don't have the Second Amendment and they don't have the Constitution, bro.
You're not treating citizens like that that are well-informed.
They have freedom of speech and they have the Second Amendment.
To hell with that.
That's why it's the greatest place in the history of the world.
They actually do, and then Muslim mayors are messing with laws.
Yeah.
So can I give a recommendation?
You know how they said that life imitates art?
Hey, to my friends in the UK, if anyone's seeing this, you know, 100-plus years ago,
you had this author, and his name was George Orwell.
And he wrote this book called 1984.
He also wrote another book called Animal Farm.
I highly encourage you guys to read this book again
because this is the world we're living in.
We're liking an Instagram post,
I'm sorry, you hurt my feelings.
So it's, it's jail time for you.
It's no longer tea time.
It's no longer tea and crumpets time.
It's jail time.
What do we need to see here?
More examples of this.
London stand is coming, guys, ladies and gentlemen.
And Kare Starmer, you're leading the charge, home boy.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see what's going to happen there.
Obviously, the good news is that they're being exposed,
and Tommy's got the brass to go out there and do it without any security.
He's doing this without any security.
Well, he needs it.
But he doesn't have the money to do the security.
So, by the way, some of you guys support what Tommy Robinson is doing.
Rob, guess what?
Tommy Robinson is on Menect.
If you're watching this and saying,
I'd like to be able to support what the guy is doing, go Mnacht him.
Show him some love.
Go to Mnick and give him his love.
Rob, if you can find the link on.
know what direction you're taking to go to the account.
If you go to his link, let's just put it up there.
For anybody that supports what he's doing,
let's see if we have the QR code right there.
That's the QR code.
Good for you, Rob, the way you just got it.
That's his QR code.
Go message him.
Give him some love.
I'm giving a kiss.
I'm giving a kiss.
It's what I'm doing.
It's a Middle Eastern kiss.
Makhlata.
All right, let's go to the next story.
This is at the top of the list for Tom.
And I won't see what Tom has to say about this.
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Jenner. Ray J is. Now,
I don't know the connection with Ray J and Tom, but
Rob, you want to play this clip? Is this like
telling us what's going on or? Yes, this is
Ray J announcing that he is working with
the Fed's on a RICO case against the Kardashians.
Okay, go for it.
This federal
Rico, though, on KK and Chris.
Ooh.
The federal
Rico I'm about to drop on
Chris and Kim is
probably crazy.
I'm talking about, I'm on the news,
Every day, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Meaning, like, I'm going to say a lot of shit with it.
Anybody know Kim and who are with Kim.
They need to tell her now.
The rain is coming.
Anybody's friends with Kim need to tell her now.
The fans is coming.
It's nothing I can do about it.
It's worse than Diddy.
It's worse than diddy.
Y'all hear this thing, boy.
It's worse than ditty.
So then.
and Kardashians respond
and Tom I'm going to come to you.
Chris Jenner sues
Ray Jade, Kardashians and
Jenner sue Ray J. for defamation
called for
inflammatory
Fed's
Rico accusation. This is a New York Post story.
He can't keep up with the Kardashians. Kim Kardashian
and her mom, Chris Jenner, or soon, Ray J.
for defamation after the single
claimed he was working with the federal
government to build a recall case against a pair.
Unable to accept the end of
his fleeting relationship with Kardashian
over 20 years ago, Rayja has repeatedly sought to attach himself to plaintiffs' names and exploit their prominence for personal gain.
Ray J.
for the first claim, the racketeering charges against Kardashian would be appropriate during the documentary, TMZ, present United States versus Sean Combs.
Tom, what do you know about the story here?
Very little.
I saw this original video, very, very fuzzy, but appeared that Ray J.
Radha watches it a lot.
Was pole vaulting over Chris Jenner, at least it looked like some sort of, yeah.
You really watched a video?
No, I did not.
So what are your thoughts?
What's going on here?
Well, Tom, you sure you don't want to go deeper on this?
That's what she said.
That's what Ray J said.
Oh, wow.
So Ray J is what?
He's suing the Kim and, oh, Joe.
No, no, no, he's not suing.
Stop it, Rob.
Anyway, let me give me.
Ray Jays not suing.
Ray Jays said that there's a RICO case against them while he's drinking apparently
allegedly.
Let me reframe this.
the Kardashians are suing Ray J
because he's defaming them
over some RICO accusation.
Let me tell you something, buddy.
I'm going to defend Kim Kay on this one.
And I haven't hung out with them in over a decade.
And, you know, my buddy, Chris, married her.
I was in the wedding, the whole deal.
Ray J. has not been relevant in two decades.
Not one.
Not two.
Three.
Ray J. has not been relevant.
And what he's trying to do, and this is according to the accusation,
attach himself.
to the plaintiff's names, the Kardashians,
to exploit their prominence for personal gain.
And that's exactly what he's doing.
Do you know who Brandy is?
That's Ray J's big sister.
He's also, I think, a cousin of Snoop Dogg.
He's the third most famous person in that family.
He's clinging to the hopes that maybe someone will write an article about him,
that maybe he'll be relevant again.
His famous song was One Wish.
I think, If I Had One Wish, It's actually a great song.
His One Wish is to be relevant again.
I don't know what his net worth is, maybe it's $10 million.
Who knows?
I hit it first.
Oh, he did have, he had a song called, I hit it first.
Right, Rob?
Bingo. When you're making songs about the fact that you had sex with Kim Kardashian, that is all you have to claim,
this should tell you exactly who he is at this point.
I don't even know about that song.
You never heard about it.
I think the sex thing took place in 2003.
It's 20 plus years ago that he was relevant.
And this is exactly what he's trying to do at this point.
I hit it first.
He made a song called I hit it first.
Tom loves this song.
Yeah, Tom, we understand that.
He's playing it on the way here today.
I'm with the Kardashians on this one.
Ray J can't keep up with them.
But here's my question, though, because I always take a step back and think,
out of all things to come up with, by the other,
he's on a live stream, appears that he's on a live stream,
he's drinking out of the Red Cup.
So I would assume somebody that he's drinking.
How do you just come up out of the blue that there is a RICO case that you're behind
and that you're going to do X, Y, and Z?
and then mind you he's on a podcast
or whatever streaming talking crap
that's defamation
if you're saying yeah
this is coming down on them
and this is he's on a
I can't say stuff like that
that goes back to what Adam said earlier
you can say that
if 100% you have a case
is happening
you say something like that
here's the problem Vinnie
this is what ends up happening
so
this happens to women
and this happens to celebrities
you know when you
no longer look like the way you did when you were 20 years old. And you're kind of like, oh my God,
how do I get the attention I used to get? That's the whole concept of conservative guys were open
to the idea of dating a liberal woman when they're younger, but not as they're older. And liberal
women are not open to the idea of dating a conservative man when they're younger, but I open to it
when they're what? Older, okay? Because they know the old plan didn't work. Yeah, the old plan
didn't work. So the point with this is when you are so relevant, like, imagine.
Imagine when the first sex tape came out, how famous Ray J was.
Ridiculous.
He probably couldn't go anywhere, right?
But everybody wanted to kind of, you know, hook up with them, talk to him.
Oh, my God, what a video.
You know, so then now nobody is, like, interested.
Yeah.
So what's another way for me to have a hit and to be.
Spark that old flame?
But this is the wrong group to do because you know what Kardashians have?
They got money?
Good lawyers.
Very good lawyers.
Well, you know who the, ironically, the Ray J.
of politics is Monica Lewinsky.
Now, leaving politics aside, Monica Lewinsky is known for one thing.
We all know what it was.
Ray J. is known for one thing.
And when that's the only thing you got, you're going to keep going back to the well.
You're going to keep going back to the well.
And at some point, you're going to start learning words like defamation, slander, libel.
And then you're going to end up learning words like lawsuit, jail time, pay up.
So that may be what happens with Ray J for trying to expose the Kardashians.
I love what, you know, your analysis was good.
Vinny, yours was good, but no one broke the story down better than that.
Tom was freaking fan.
Tom hit it first.
Absolutely amazing.
Oh, yeah, and from the back.
So Taiwan rejects U.S. proposal of 50-50 chip production.
It says trade talks focused on tariffs.
Okay, so let's see what this is.
trade talks focused on tariffs.
And then I'm going to go to the other story as well right afterwards.
So here we go.
Taiwan will not accept Washington's proposal locally manufactured half the chips
that currently supplies to the U.S.
The island's top trade negotiators says speaking to reporters,
Cheng Li Chuan, also the country's vice premier said on Wednesday
that the proposal for 50-50 split and semi-conducted production
was not even discussed as she returned from trade talks
in the U.S. according to Taiwan's central news agency,
Chang said the talks were focused on reducing levies on Taiwanese exports
and Taiwan currently faces a reciprocal tariff rate of 20%.
Washington has held discussions with Taipei
about the 50-50 split in semi-conducted production
which would cut American reliance on Taiwan.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik said last Wednesday
in an interview to News Nation that adding that currently 95% of U.S. demands
was met via chips produce within Taiwan.
my objective and this administration objective
is to get chip manufacturing
significantly on short.
We need to make our own chips. Lutnik said the idea
that I pitched Taiwan was, let's get
50-50, we're producing half and we're
you're producing half. Donald Trump also
has spoken, take your name at the island's
dominance and chip earlier this year
accusing it of stealing
the U.S. chip business. Interesting.
Tom. It's very simple.
Taiwan says, I wanted you to
protect, this is incredibly simple.
Taiwan said, I wanted you to protect me from
from China, but I don't want you to take the revenue by building some of the chips over at your
house. Please, don't do that. And that was the deal that the Trump and Howard Lutna put in front of
them. Hey, we're going to build chips in the U.S. It'll be 50-50. We'll move the tariff back,
and then we'll diplomatically work with China. And they're like, no, I still want to make everything
and I want you to protect me. That's what it came down to. I think Lutnik's being very smart here.
I think Lutnik is being smart, but I think Lutnik and them are also leveraging the fact that you need,
you need their protection to Tom,
you good?
That Ray J thing really got him fired up.
Tom, Tom is gone.
Tom just walked down.
Wait, was it Ty Juan or?
He was like, and that's it and there's a chip.
We know Tom's trigger.
It's semi-conductors.
This is the last time we will cover the semiconductor story ever again.
Go ahead, Adam.
Tom's got a semi-own right now.
Go ahead.
Well, Tom is actually right.
I wish he was here to receive this credit and accolade.
Taiwan can't have it both ways.
It's kind of like Ukraine.
It's like you want our money, you want our funding, you want our help, you want our hard power, soft power, the whole deal.
But we're going to need a little bit of them minerals, Mr. Zelensky.
What Taiwan is saying is like, yeah, we need your protection, but you're not getting any of our chips.
Now Vinnie's leaving?
Adam, what's your point?
Shut up, Tom.
Go back to your seat.
Okay.
But the point is.
Because Taiwan is going to have to come to the bargaining table and we can't have 95% of our chips manufactured in Taiwan.
Did you know that number, Pat? 95%.
That's a lot.
That's a monopoly on our chips.
It's kind of like when China was manufacturing all our goods.
Are we learned during COVID?
Oh, my God.
But the leverage is on the U.S. still.
Because of protection?
Because we're like the big mafia boss.
Are you kidding me?
What are you talking about?
So how are they saying?
No, we're not going to give you a...
They're going to get it.
U.S. is going to get what they want.
maybe a longer plan.
But U.S. is going to get what they want.
They don't have a lot of choices of what to do here.
They need America, period.
That's true.
They need America in a big way.
But I want to get to the next story about tariffs,
and then we'll wrap it up.
This next story about tariffs is having to do with Hollywood.
Trump threatens 100% tariffs on foreign-made movies.
Okay?
Foreign-made movies.
Here's CNN talking about the story.
Go ahead, Rob.
Taking on the film industry in a new way,
In a social media post just moments ago, he wrote that he will be imposing a 100% tariff on, as he put it, any and all movies made outside of the U.S.
He also said California's been hit hard by movie productions moving outside the United States.
And this may sound familiar.
He did start threatening this back in May.
It seems that he's now moving towards it.
And for years, filmmakers have been leaving Hollywood for destinations outside the U.S., including U.K. and Canada in order to lower costs.
Several big movies of recent were produced by U.S. studios shot outside.
side of America, including Deadpool and Wolverine, Wicked, Gladiator 2.
Think about it is the president did not say when or how the tariffs would happen.
So stand by to standby on that.
Stand by to stand by on that.
President Donald Trump said on the true social post on my subpoena.
Okay, good idea, bad idea, Tom, what's going on here?
You look happier.
You look lighter.
Good or a bad idea about what happened with tariffs on that movies.
So I think this is a good idea because I think what Trump is saying, hey, multiple states are giving
tax incentive. Georgia gives you some. Florida gives you them. Texas will give you them. Washington's
got a lot of editing in Vancouver area. So Trump is like, hey, make the movies here in the U.S.
Make them here in the U.S. There's all these places to make in the U.S. even if they're trying to get out of
California because of the unions and things that are happening that you've seen, Vinny. You've
personally seen it. Everything from comedy shows. I don't mean like on location comedy shows where
you're in New York at some classic comedy place.
you're filming it there. Of course, I'm talking about just doing, you know, live, HBO comedy
jam or doing it live, getting out. And what Trump is saying, look, American jobs, American
manufacturing make movies in America just like washing machines. I think that is the angle,
that is the real message here. Now then, here's where I feel weird about this. I love the fact
that like the last Bond movie was shot on location. And you can see that it's,
it's Croatian. It's not CGI and it's beautiful. There's places all over the place to go.
And so I feel kind of weird. I'm kind of weird about that way. But I understand what he's
trying to do. They're kind of treating it, you know, like, hey, make your washing machines,
make your appliances, make electronics here in America, American jobs. I get that part.
But there's a part of the creative side. I think you got to give him grace.
Yeah. I think Trump is just throwing this out there to make waves to kind of make a point.
I don't know if Trump truly on his list of, you know, you talk about his top agenda, 20 things, if American movies is on this.
I think it's the first time that he's implemented a proposed tariff on a service rather than a good.
Everything is goods, goods, goods, goods, everything to manufacturing.
This is a service now.
I don't know.
I think that maybe he throws this out there, just like many other tariffs and many other countries, it's a negotiation tactic.
Then you meet somewhere in the middle.
I think it'd be great if all movies were made in America, you know, made in America.
but that's not the reality of it.
Like you gave the James Bond example.
Like certain places we're going to need
for the movie to have actual
like the proper scene, the proper vibe,
you might need to go to New Zealand
or you might need to go to Italy, whatever it is.
Lord of the Rings was shot all in New Zealand.
Exactly. So I think this is a threat
that he'll eventually tamper down
and meet in the middle. But if we know anything about Trump,
he throws a grenade out there, see who reacts,
and then he kind of takes it from there.
But I think they should,
They should do something like at least a 50-50.
Like if you're going to shoot five of them there,
we want you to shoot five of them here.
Like because the job market in Los Angeles
for all the people that are working on movies
and everything,
and everything, it is bad, bro.
It is really, really, really bad.
I'd love to know what Gavin Newsom thinks about something like this.
Well, listen.
Does he want to keep jobs in California?
Gavin Newsom is becoming pro-oil
because he wants to run for office.
Gavin Newsom's got a bigger problem to deal with.
But when it comes on to creative, I am a little bit more, you got to create a creative goal,
do where they want to produce the movie.
And then encourage some states in America that want more movies to be shot there, give better benefits.
By the way, some people may not want that.
Some states are like, I don't want Hollywood to come to my state.
No problem.
You pick and choose what values you want to build on.
But last story here with Newsom, Newsom is wanting to drive a stick chef.
again. What type?
Newsom courts, big oil as gas prices threaten political ambitions.
Uh-oh. The guy wants to run for office. How are you going to do it? If you keep hating on
oil industry, how will he pull it off? Remember when Trump's like, don't forget what he said,
factoring, you know, fracking. Remember what he has? With fracking, don't forget what he said.
In one of the debates that took place, not him and Newsom, it was a different candidate.
So last year, Newsom stood before Californians and declared that oil industry that polluted heart of this climate crisis.
Big old, he said, was lying, manipulating, profiteering.
They're screwing you, he added, after signing a bill to bolster oversight.
Months later, one of Newsom's top energy regulators was dispatch on a plane to America's petroleum heartland on a mission to placate the oil companies threatening to flee California.
Newsom, a Democrat in the second term and final term, is making a remarkable shift in his approach.
after leading a years-long crusade against fossil fuels,
which may have ended up being more successful than the intended.
California, often home to the country's highest gasoline prices,
is now staring down a potential energy crisis
as the industry pulls up stakes.
Chevron Corporation moved its headquartered out of the Golden State refineries
are closing a key oil pipeline is hemorrhaging.
Money and Republicans are warning that gasoline prices could end up at $8 a gallon
in California. Newsom
has disputed this estimate
but says it's a top priority to bring down
gasoline prices of Californians.
The focus comes amid
a growing speculation that he is
geared enough for a presidential run in 2020. Tom,
your thoughts on the story. Well, first of all,
first of all, to the Bloomberg writers,
you smarmy little bastards.
Oh, whoa.
Look at this.
Newsom's top energy regulator
was dispatched on a plane
to America's Petroleum Heartland.
They wrote it that way because they didn't
want to say Texas. They didn't want to say that Newsom's advisors had to go to Texas and make peace
with people that they had kicked in the balls. That's what they didn't want to say. Bloomberg didn't
want to say, Dispatched on a plane to America's Petroleum Heartland. No, they can't just say,
hey, they went to Houston, Texas to talk to Chevron, to talk to Exxon. Number one. Number two,
I honestly believe that there's something wrong with Newsom that you,
you couldn't have seen this coming.
You had refineries.
It doesn't matter that Chevron moved the headquarters out.
It was the Valero refineries and others that shut down because of a bunch of regulation,
and they said they're not going to be there.
And then I think what caught him out is the EV slowdown.
If the EV slowdown doesn't happen, and he gets the 30% EV cars,
then he doesn't need the gas.
But guess what?
The EV slowdown happened.
We're trying to get lithium.
The president is trying to cut lithium deals, you know, investing in companies, which I disagree with, trying to make the lithium deal to make the lithium available, which I 100% support my president, more cowbell, please, and I see it.
And so this is Newsome getting caught in the vice.
You know, EVs slow down.
Now he needs the oil.
The refineries are gone.
You can't spin up a refinery in 10 minutes.
So, hey, get the Red Cross here with a boat so we can give water and people to hear after the hurricane.
No, you can't do that.
You can't just build a refinery overnight.
People like DeSantis, I built a bridge in about 48 hours to help people after a hurricane.
That's leadership.
But Newsom is completely caught out.
And then Bloomberg can't even say Newsom sent his guys to Texas.
So I see two sides of this.
This is the way liberals write.
And this is why Words Talk Number Scream, and you've got to dive into the articles to see what's really written.
But right now, Newsom is pinched.
Oh, Adam.
Well, let me tell you, this is the one way that Gavin Newsom will win the election that he's destined to be a part of in 2028.
We talked about how, you know, Hollywood, the movies, you know, nobody has deeper connections to Hollywood than Gavin Newsom.
But there was a movie that took place many years ago.
It was called Men in Black.
And Will Smith would hold something up like this.
And they said, look right here.
Boom, flash.
And it was a memory eraser.
And that is the only way that Gavin Newsom will possibly.
win a general election is that he wants to completely erase your memory of all the damage he's
done in California. And if he can do that, if it look right here, boom, use his hand. I love
your personation with his hands. Look right here, a la Will Smith, erase your memory and be like,
wow, what a great guy this guy is. He's well-spoken and he has great hair. I'll vote for him.
That's the only way a guy like that's going to win. Because if you have any semblance of a memory
and you don't have dementia, shout out to Joe Biden,
there's no way you're going to take this guy seriously.
So he's hoping that everybody forgets.
I don't care what anybody says.
Anybody says.
To me, I think whether you like the guy or don't like that,
whether you're going to vote for him or not, Rob, if you can pull this up,
this is probably one of the best interviews I've seen Newsom do.
I saw him the other day.
He's sitting there doing interview with this one guy,
and this guy's asking him questions.
And I'm like, actually very good answers that he's given.
This guy you're going.
Well, he uses his hand.
Adam made a great point, Pat.
I realize Gavin Newsom, he'll, he'll distress that.
Just do me if ever.
Just pay attention.
Go.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsome.
Thank you for being on the show.
Thank you, Daniel, for having me.
I want to apologize in advance.
Just really, really quick.
I got to let you know right now.
The flight that I was on was delayed.
so didn't get that much sleep, but I'm here now, and I want to thank you for having me.
My first questions are about the ice raids in California.
How do you feel about the situation?
How do I feel?
I think Donald Trump is an authoritarian.
I think he is a tyrant.
He thinks he's going to come to California and act like Hitler, like literally, Hitler, look at that.
Who did I find out of it?
That's Donald Trump, but guess what?
Not on my watch, all right?
Not on my watch.
Here, you could keep that.
It was a composite right there.
You got to give it to him.
He's like, just a very fascinating guy's interview.
And the interview actually did a great job in the interview.
Anyways, gang, we take out what's going on here tonight.
This is the first time we're announcing it because at this point, those who are coming, you know what the story is.
Tonight, Eric Trump will be on the podcast, 7 p.m. tonight, we will live stream.
Put in your calendar 7 p.m. tonight.
Eric Trump
We haven't had him on for a minute
I think we had him on last year
Yeah right after the election we had him on
Yeah we got a lot of things to cover here with him tonight
And he hasn't done a lot of podcasts and stuff
For quite some time
He's been kind of low key for quite some time
We got some things to ask him about
We got to ask him about what Trump 2028 really means
Yeah
We got to ask him about some questions with Kirk
The Investigations, FBI, a bunch of different things
But we're looking forward to it
And FYI just to give a credit
were credits to
LA fans won.
Really?
The amount of...
Well, look how blue that thing is.
Blue.
Why are we voting blue, guys?
You think he went to the bathroom?
He was in there buying 200 hats.
VT merch, just so you guys know.
I mean, it was,
no, it was, if you subtract 50,
it wasn't even close.
This destroyed Yankees.
If you're watching this,
go get your Navy blue
Future Looks bright hat.
But damn, this hat looks good.
Anyways, God bless.
everybody. We will do it again later on tonight and have a great weekend for those you guys
that join us or don't join us. Take care. God bless. Bye-bye.